Plato, Gorgias, section 478b

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[478b] medicine from disease, and justice from licentiousness and injustice.

Polus
Apparently.

Socrates
Which then is the fairest of these things?

Polus
Of what things, pray?

Socrates
Moneymaking, medicine, justice.

Polus
Justice, Socrates, is far above the others.

Socrates
Now again, if it is fairest, it causes either most pleasure or benefit or both.

Polus
Yes.

Socrates
Well then, is it pleasant to be medically treated, and do those who undergo such treatment enjoy it?

Polus
I do not think so.

Socrates
But it is beneficial, is it not?

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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