Plato, Alcibiades 1, section 115a

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[115a]

Socrates
You are quite a prophet! Now tell me, do you consider some just things to be expedient, and others not?

Alcibiades
Yes.

Socrates
And again, some noble, and some not?

Alcibiades
What do you mean by that question?

Socrates
I would ask whether anyone ever seemed to you to be doing what was base and yet just.

Alcibiades
Never.

Socrates
Well, are all just things noble?

Alcibiades
Yes.

Socrates
And what of noble things, in their turn? Are they all good, or some only, while others are not?

Alcibiades
In my opinion, Socrates, some noble things are evil.

Socrates
And some base things are good?

Alcibiades
Yes.

Plato. Plato in Twelve Volumes, Vol. 8 translated by W.R.M. Lamb. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1955.

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