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injustice and
licentiousness and cowardice and ignorance.” “Does any
one of these things dissolve and destroy it? And reflect, lest we be misled
by supposing that when an unjust and foolish man is taken in his injustice
he is then destroyed by the injustice, which is the vice of soul. But
conceive it thus: Just as the vice of body which is disease wastes and
destroys it so that it no longer is a body at all,1 in like manner in all the
examples of which we spoke it is the specific evil which,
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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