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and beauty and good condition of the
soul, and vice would be disease,1
ugliness, and weakness.” “It is so.”
“Then is it not also true that beautiful and honorable pursuits
tend to the winning of virtue and the ugly to vice?” “Of
necessity.”“And now
at last, it seems, it remains for us to consider whether it is profitable to
do justice
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