Plato, Gorgias, section 467e

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[467e]

Polus
Yes.

Socrates
Now is there any existent thing that is not either good or bad or between these—neither good nor bad?

Polus
Most assuredly nothing, Socrates.

Socrates
Well, do you call wisdom and health and wealth and everything else of that kind good, and their opposites bad?

Polus
I do.

Socrates
And by things neither good nor bad do you mean such things

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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