Plato, Philebus, section 39e

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[39e] but not to the future?

Protarchus
To the future especially.

Socrates
Do you say “to the future especially” because they are all hopes relating to the future and we are always filled with hopes all our lives?

Protarchus
Precisely.

Socrates
Well, here is a further question for you to answer.

Protarchus
What is it?

Socrates
A just, pious, and good man is surely a friend of the gods, is he not?

Protarchus
Certainly.

Socrates
And an unjust and thoroughly bad man

Plato. Plato in Twelve Volumes, Vol. 9 translated by Harold N. Fowler. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1925.

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