Plato, Gorgias, section 498c

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[498c] feel pain and enjoyment about equally, according to you, but the cowardly more than the brave?

Callicles
I agree.

Socrates
But further, are the wise and brave good, and the cowards and fools bad?

Callicles
Yes.

Socrates
Then the good and the bad feel enjoyment and pain about equally?

Callicles
I agree.

Socrates
Then are the good and the bad about equally good and bad? Or are the bad in some yet greater measure good and bad?

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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