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remains that could; for
obviously1 the good will never destroy
anything, nor yet again will that which is neutral and neither good nor
evil2.” “How
could it?” he said. “If, then, we discover3
anything that has an evil which vitiates it, yet is not able to dissolve and
destroy it, shall we not thereupon know that of a thing so constituted there
can be no destruction?” “That seems likely,”
he said. “Well, then,” said I, “has not the
soul something that makes it evil?” “Indeed it
has,” he said, “all the things that we were just now
enumerating,
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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