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 1 Text|         whether they are a good thing or a bad.~Very good, I said,
 2 Text|       we are contending about a thing of which the usefulness
 3 Text|         as beneficial or not,—a thing, too, which is esteemed
 4 Text|        one. But what particular thing is wealth, if not all things?
 5 Text| possibly there would be no such thing as wealth.~ERYXIAS: Clearly
 6 Text|     Would you say that the same thing can be at one time useful
 7 Text|     that if we require the same thing to produce the same result,
 8 Text| required for the existence of a thing are not useful for the production
 9 Text|         SOCRATES: But can a bad thing be used to carry out a good
10 Text|     antecedents without which a thing cannot exist are not necessarily
11 Text|        think it possible that a thing should be useful for a purpose