Plato, Sophist, section 228d

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[228d] the aberration of a soul that aims at truth, when the understanding passes beside the mark.

Theaetetus
Very true.

Stranger
Then we must regard a foolish soul as deformed and ill-proportioned.

Theaetetus
So it seems.

Stranger
Then there are, it appears, these two kinds of evils in the soul, one, which people call wickedness, which is very clearly a disease.

Theaetetus
Yes.

Stranger
And the other they call ignorance, but they are not willing to acknowledge that it is vice, when it arises only in the soul.

Plato. Plato in Twelve Volumes, Vol. 12 translated by Harold N. Fowler. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1921.

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