Plato, Lesser Hippias, section 373e

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[373e]

Socrates
And if doing, is it not also performing some act?

Hippias
Yes.

Socrates
Then he who runs badly performs a bad and disgraceful act in a race?

Hippias
Yes, a bad act of course.

Socrates
But he runs badly who runs slowly?

Hippias
Yes.

Socrates
Then the good runner performs this bad and disgraceful act voluntarily, and the bad runner involuntarily?

Hippias
So it seems.

Socrates
In running, then, he who does bad acts involuntarily is worse than he who does them voluntarily?

Hippias
Yes, in running.

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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