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Quotation from Gorgias by Plato
“he will run to the judge, as he would to the physician, in order that the disease of injustice may not be rendered chronic and become the incurable cancer of the soul”
Gorgias, 480a-b, trans. Benjamin Jowett (1892)
Socrates draws the consequence of his argument: punishment is medicine for the soul, and the wrongdoer should seek it.
Citation: "he will run to the judge, as he would to the physician, in order that the disease of injustice may not be rendered chronic and become the incurable cancer of the soul" — Plato, Gorgias, 480a-b, trans. Benjamin Jowett (1892). (id plato-gorgias-q4)
