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But the body being one thing and the foods something
else, we shall never expect the body to be destroyed by their badness, that
is by an alien evil that has not produced in it the evil that belongs to it
by nature.” “You are entirely right,” he
replied.“On the same
principle,” said I, “if the badness of the body does not
produce in the soul the soul's badness we shall never expect the soul to be
destroyed by an alien evil apart from its own defect—one thing,
that is, by the evil of another.” “That is
reasonable,” he said. “Either, then, we must refute this
Plato. Plato in Twelve Volumes, Vols. 5 & 6 translated by Paul Shorey. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1969.
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