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[231b]

Friend
I believe that is what I call gain.

Socrates
Do you include a case where, after enjoying a banquet at which one has had much good cheer without any expense, one acquires an illness?

Friend
Upon my word, not I.

Socrates
And if one acquired health from attending a banquet, would one acquire gain or loss?

Friend
Gain.

Socrates
Hence gain is not just acquiring any acquisition.

Friend
No, indeed.

Socrates
Do you mean, not if it is evil? Or will one acquire no gain even if one acquires something good?

Friend
Apparently one will, if it is good.


Plato. Plato in Twelve Volumes, Vol. 8 translated by W.R.M. Lamb. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1955.

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