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Friend
Not those gains from which they are bound, Socrates, to suffer harm.

Socrates
By “suffer harm” do you mean “suffer loss,” or something else?

Friend
No, I mean just “suffer loss.”

Socrates
Well, do men suffer loss from gain or from loss?

Friend
From both; for they suffer loss from loss and from wicked gain.

Socrates
Pray now, do you consider that any useful and good thing is wicked?

Friend
I do not.


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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