Plato, Lesser Hippias, section 374c

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[374c] but when involuntary with faultiness.

Hippias
Apparently.

Socrates
And what do you say about the voice? Which do you say is the better? That which sings out of tune voluntarily, or involuntarily?

Hippias
That which does it voluntarily.

Socrates
And that which does it involuntarily is the worse?

Hippias
Yes.

Socrates
Would you choose to possess good or bad things?

Hippias
Good ones.

Socrates
Would you, then, choose to possess feet that limp voluntarily, or involuntarily?

Hippias
Voluntarily.

Plato. Plato in Twelve Volumes, Vol. 9 translated by W.R.M. Lamb. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1925.

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