Plato, Gorgias, section 475c

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[475c] exceeds suffering it in point of pain—if those who do wrong are more pained than those who suffer it.

Polus
Not so at all, Socrates.

Socrates
Then it does not surpass in pain.

Polus
No, indeed.

Socrates
And so, if not in pain, it can no longer be said to exceed in both.

Polus
Apparently.

Socrates
It remains, then, that it exceeds in the other.

Polus
Yes.

Socrates
In evil.

Polus
So it seems.

Socrates
Then it is by an excess of evil that doing wrong is fouler than suffering it.

Polus
Yes, obviously.

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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