Plato, Gorgias, section 469a

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[469a]

Polus
Whichever way he does it, is it not enviable in either case?

Socrates
Hush, Polus!

Polus
Why?

Socrates
Because we ought not to envy either the unenviable or the wretched, but pity them.

Polus
What! Is that the state in which you consider those people, of whom I speak, to be?

Socrates
Yes, for so I must.

Polus
Then do you consider that a man who puts another to death as he thinks fit, and justly puts him to death, is wretched and pitiable?

Socrates
Not I; but not enviable either.

Polus
Did you not say just now that he was wretched?

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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