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 1 Text|      still. Or is a house a most useful and necessary possession,
 2 Text|         is useless and the other useful?~ERASISTRATUS: Yes.~SOCRATES:
 3 Text|          True.~SOCRATES: What is useful to us, then, is wealth,
 4 Text|          other things? These are useful and yet they are not wealth.~
 5 Text|      wealth? That wealth must be useful, to be wealth at all,—thus
 6 Text|       constitutes wealth must be useful, and that wealth is one
 7 Text|      that wealth is one class of useful things; and now we have
 8 Text|         What is the use of those useful things which constitute
 9 Text|       probably may be said to be useful which we use in production,
10 Text|          is the science which is useful for getting rid of disease.
11 Text|          possession of wealth is useful in ministering to our bodily
12 Text|           that wealth is what is useful to this end?~Eryxias once
13 Text|         thing can be at one time useful and at another useless for
14 Text|        then it seems to me to be useful; if not, not.~SOCRATES:
15 Text|     existence of a thing are not useful for the production of it?~
16 Text|    enabled us to obtain what was useful to us?~ERYXIAS: O Socrates,
17 Text|          that the money which is useful for this purpose is of the
18 Text|        that these things are not useful towards life, if by them
19 Text|        of life, that art will be useful towards life? For do we
20 Text|        we not say that silver is useful because it enables us to
21 Text|        are reckoned among things useful, the arts are wealth for
22 Text|        we are asked, ‘Is a horse useful to everybody?’ will not
23 Text|       And so, too, physic is not useful to every one, but only to
24 Text|          make up wealth are only useful to the person who knows
25 Text|    before useless has now become useful to him, and in giving him
26 Text|           Are not certain things useful to the builder when he is
27 Text|        say that those things are useful which are employed in house
28 Text|          to me that they are all useful for building.~SOCRATES:
29 Text|        work could not go on, are useful for that art?~CRITIAS: Certainly.~
30 Text|       the other things which are useful to the body, would he need
31 Text|     things cannot be at one time useful and at another time not,
32 Text|         you maintain if they are useful to a certain end, they can
33 Text|          And will not hearing be useful for virtue, if virtue is
34 Text|         too may sometimes appear useful in the acquisition of virtue,
35 Text|          we not regard wealth as useful for virtue?~CRITIAS: True.~
36 Text|        can that which is evil be useful for virtue?~CRITIAS: No.~
37 Text|          which we obtain what is useful for a certain object should
38 Text|          object should always be useful for the same object: for
39 Text|          this way:—If things are useful towards the several ends
40 Text|      ignorance, for instance, be useful for knowledge, or disease
41 Text|        exist are not necessarily useful to it. Otherwise ignorance
42 Text| Otherwise ignorance would appear useful for knowledge, disease for
43 Text|         whether these things are useful and a part of wealth or
44 Text|  possible that a thing should be useful for a purpose unless we
45 Text|         Then if these things are useful for supplying the needs
46 Text|    greatest number of things are useful for his purpose, will also
47 Text| necessarily feel the want of all useful things?~CRITIAS: It seems
48 Text|         body; for wealth appears useful towards that end. And the