Plato, Lesser Hippias, section 376a

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[376a]

Hippias
Yes.

Socrates
Whenever, then, it does disgraceful acts, it does them voluntarily, by reason of power and art; and these, either one or both of them, are attributes of justice.

Hippias
So it seems.

Socrates
And doing injustice is doing evil acts, and not doing injustice is doing good acts.

Hippias
Yes.

Socrates
Will not, then, the more powerful and better soul, when it does injustice, do it voluntarily, and the bad soul involuntarily?

Hippias
Apparently.

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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