Plato, Alcibiades 1, section 115e

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[115e]

Socrates
And you would most desire to have the former, and least the latter?

Alcibiades
Yes.

Socrates
Is that because you think the former best, and the latter worst?

Alcibiades
To be sure.

Socrates
So you reckon courage among the best things, and death among the worst.

Alcibiades
I do.

Socrates
Then the rescue of one's friends in battle, inasmuch as it is noble in respect of the working of good by courage, you have termed noble?

Alcibiades
Apparently.

Socrates
But evil, in respect of the working of evil by death?

Alcibiades
Yes.

Socrates
So we may fairly describe each of these workings as follows: as you call either of them evil because of the evil it produces,

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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