Plato, Gorgias, section 475a

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[475a]

Socrates
And is it not just the same with the “fairness” of studies also?

Polus
Doubtless; and this time, Socrates, your definition is quite fair, when you define what is fair by pleasure and good.

Socrates
And foul by their opposites, pain and evil?

Polus
That needs must follow.

Socrates
Thus when of two fair things one is fairer, the cause is that it surpasses in either one or both of these effects, either in pleasure, or in benefit, or in both.

Polus
Certainly.

Socrates
And again, when one of two foul things is fouler,

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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