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[227d] and thinks fit to make gain from, things from which honest men do not dare to make gain.

Socrates
But you see, my sweet sir, we have just admitted that making gain is being benefited.

Friend
Well, what of that?

Socrates
There is the further point we have admitted in addition to this—that all men wish for good things always.

Friend
Yes.

Socrates
Then good men likewise wish to have all gains, if these are good things.


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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