Plato, Gorgias, section 477c

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[477c]

Socrates
So now in property, body, and soul, these three, you have mentioned three vices—poverty, disease, and injustice?

Polus
Yes.

Socrates
Then which of these vices is the foulest? Is it not injustice—in short, the vice of the soul?

Polus
Far the foulest.

Socrates
And if foulest, then also most evil?

Polus
How do you mean, Socrates?

Socrates
Just this: the foulest is foulest in each case because it produces the greatest pain or harm or both; this follows from our previous admissions.

Polus
Quite so.

Socrates
And foulest of all, we have just agreed, is injustice and,

Plato. Plato in Twelve Volumes, Vol. 3 translated by W.R.M. Lamb. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1967.

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