Plato, Meno, section 78c

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[78c] is ability to procure goods.

Meno
I entirely agree, Socrates, with the view which you now take of the matter.

Socrates
Then let us see whether your statement is true in another respect; for very likely you may be right. You say virtue is the ability to procure goods?

Meno
I do.

Socrates
And do you not mean by goods such things as health and wealth?

Meno
Yes, and I include the acquisition of gold and silver, and of state honors and offices.

Socrates
Are there any things besides this sort, that you class as goods?

Meno
No, I refer only to everything of that sort.

Plato. Plato in Twelve Volumes, Vol. 3 translated by W.R.M. Lamb. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1967.

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