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Pol. To the judges, you mean.

Soc. -Who are to punish them?

Pol. Yes.

Soc. And do not those who rightly punish others, punish them in

accordance with a certain rule of justice?

Pol. Clearly.

Soc. Then the art of money-making frees a man from poverty; medicine

from disease; and justice from intemperance and injustice?

Pol. That is evident.

Soc. Which, then, is the best of these three?

Pol. Will you enumerate them?

Soc. Money-making, medicine, and justice.

Pol. Justice, Socrates, far excels the two others.

Soc. And justice, if the best, gives the greatest pleasure or

advantage or both?

Pol. Yes.

Soc. But is the being healed a pleasant thing, and are those who are

being healed pleased?

Pol. I think not.

Soc. A useful thing, then?

Pol. Yes.

Soc. Yes, because the patient is delivered from a great evil; and

this is the advantage of enduring the pain-that you get well?

Pol. Certainly.

Soc. And would he be the happier man in his bodily condition, who is

healed, or who never was out of health?

Pol. Clearly he who was never out of health.

Soc. Yes; for happiness surely does not consist in being delivered

from evils, but in never having had them.

Pol. True.

Soc. And suppose the case of two persons who have some evil in their

bodies, and that one of them is healed and delivered from evil, and