Plato, Lesser Hippias, section 375d

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[375d]

Socrates
Will it, then, be better if it does evil and errs voluntarily, or involuntarily?

Hippias
But it would be a terrible thing, Socrates, if those who do wrong voluntarily are to be better than those who do so involuntarily.

Socrates
But surely they appear, at least, to be so, from what has been said.

Hippias
Not to me.

Socrates
I thought, Hippias, they appeared to be so to you also. But now once more answer me: Is not justice either a sort of power or knowledge, or both? Or must not justice inevitably be one or other of these

Plato. Plato in Twelve Volumes, Vol. 9 translated by W.R.M. Lamb. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1925.

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