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Polus
What a strange doctrine, Socrates, you are trying to maintain!Socrates
Yes, and I will endeavor to make you too, my friend, maintain it with me: for I count you as a friend. Well now, these are the points on which we differ; just examine them yourself. I think I told you at an earlier stage that wrongdoing was worse than being wronged.Polus
Certainly you did.Socrates
And you thought that being wronged was worse.Polus
Yes.Socrates
And I said that wrongdoers were wretched, and I was refuted by you.Polus
Upon my word, yes.
What a strange doctrine, Socrates, you are trying to maintain!Socrates
Yes, and I will endeavor to make you too, my friend, maintain it with me: for I count you as a friend. Well now, these are the points on which we differ; just examine them yourself. I think I told you at an earlier stage that wrongdoing was worse than being wronged.Polus
Certainly you did.Socrates
And you thought that being wronged was worse.Polus
Yes.Socrates
And I said that wrongdoers were wretched, and I was refuted by you.Polus
Upon my word, yes.