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 1 Pre |           the dialogue; and it is a good example of a short spurious
 2 Text|           you, I said; have you any good news from Sicily to tell
 3 Text|            what is evil and what is good; what should be done and
 4 Text|       generally, whether they are a good thing or a bad.~Very good,
 5 Text|           good thing or a bad.~Very good, I said, and I am obliged
 6 Text|             consider riches to be a good or an evil?~I am of opinion,
 7 Text|            he said, that they are a good. He was about to add something
 8 Text|          But surely, if they were a good, they could not appear bad
 9 Text|          heavy, but whether it is a good or an evil, whereby, although
10 Text|            seem to you an evil or a good?~ERYXIAS: An evil.~CRITIAS:
11 Text|          should you call sickness a good or an evil?~ERYXIAS: An
12 Text|            think that riches were a good and in what an evil? Prodicus
13 Text|          just now, that they were a good to good men and to those
14 Text|            that they were a good to good men and to those who knew
15 Text|         wise in that wisdom whereby good men become wise, he must
16 Text|           also make everything else good to me. Not that he concerns
17 Text|             and so when he makes me good, he makes things good to
18 Text|            me good, he makes things good to me.~Prodicus did not
19 Text|          said the youth, that doing good things is like building
20 Text|            what they were at first, good or bad, for all time?~Prodicus
21 Text|          enough: I think that doing good things is a work of human
22 Text|             may do well and receive good, you mean by your prayer
23 Text|           that you desire to become good and wise:—if, at least,
24 Text|            if, at least, things are good to the good and wise and
25 Text|              things are good to the good and wise and evil to the
26 Text|       entreat the Gods to grant you good things, although you know
27 Text|           agreed that (wealth) is a good to some and an evil to others.
28 Text| understanding as to whether it is a good or an evil. I am ready to
29 Text|           affirms that riches are a good, tell us what, in his opinion,
30 Text|            it was the business of a good man and a gentleman to know
31 Text|         ERYXIAS: Yes.~SOCRATES: The good and gentle, therefore will
32 Text|          bad things are needed, and good for others.~SOCRATES: But
33 Text|        thing be used to carry out a good purpose?~CRITIAS: I should
34 Text|           And we call those actions good which a man does for the
35 Text|         actions may sometimes serve good purposes? The matter will