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Quotation from Sophist by Plato

“Then we shall be right in calling vice a discord and disease of the soul”

Plato (spoken by The Eleatic Stranger)

Sophist, Sixth division, c. 228b, trans. Benjamin Jowett (1892)

The Stranger distinguishes two evils in the soul, vice as disease and ignorance as deformity, on the model of the two bodily arts of medicine and gymnastic.

Citation: "Then we shall be right in calling vice a discord and disease of the soul" — Plato, Sophist, Sixth division, c. 228b, trans. Benjamin Jowett (1892). (id plato-sophist-q3)

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