Plato, Gorgias, section 477e

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[477e] so as to be foulest of all, since it is not by pain, on your view of the matter.

Polus
Apparently.

Socrates
But further, I suppose, whatever has an excess of harm in the greatest measure, must be the greatest evil in the world.

Polus
Yes.

Socrates
So injustice, licentiousness, and in general, vice of soul, are the greatest evils in the world?

Polus
Apparently.

Socrates
Now what is the art that relieves from poverty? Is it not money-making?

Polus
Yes.

Socrates
And what from disease? Is it not medicine?

Polus
It must be.

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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