Plato, Gorgias, section 478a

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[478a]

Socrates
And what from wickedness and injustice? If you are not ready for that offhand, consider it thus: whither and to whom do we take those who are in bodily sickness?

Polus
To the doctor, Socrates.

Socrates
And whither the wrongdoers and libertines?

Polus
To the law-court, do you mean?

Socrates
Yes, and to pay the penalty?

Polus
I agree.

Socrates
Then is it not by employing a kind of justice that those punish who punish aright?

Polus
Clearly so.

Socrates
Then money-making relieves us from poverty,

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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