Plato, Gorgias, section 477d

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[477d] in general, vice of soul?

Polus
Yes, we have.

Socrates
So then either it is most painful, that is, foulest of these vices by an excess of painfulness, or else of harmfulness, or in both ways?

Polus
Necessarily.

Socrates
Then do you think that being unjust, licentious, cowardly, and ignorant is more painful than being poor and sick?

Polus
No, I do not, Socrates, from what we have said.

Socrates
Portentous then must be the extent of harm, and astonishing the evil, by which the soul's vice exceeds all the others

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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