Plato, Gorgias, section 478e

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[478e]

Socrates
Happiest therefore is he who has no vice in his soul, since we found this to be the greatest of evils.

Polus
Clearly so.

Socrates
Next after him, I take it, is he who is relieved of it.

Polus
So it seems.

Socrates
And that was the man who is reproved, reprimanded, and made to pay the penalty.

Polus
Yes.

Socrates
Hence the worst life is led by him who has the vice and is not relieved of it.

Polus
Apparently.

Socrates
And this is the man who in committing the greatest wrongs and practicing the greatest injustice has contrived to escape reproof and chastisement and penalty alike,

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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