Dialogue

 1 Phileb|          certain affinities with evil, with pleasure, with ignorance,
 2 Phileb|  acknowledged, not an element of evil, but rather a law of nature.
 3 Phileb|        the character of absolute evil. And therefore the infinite
 4 Phileb|    philosophers. ‘Is pleasure an evil? a good? the only good?’
 5 Phileb|          and motives of good and evil, and that the salvation
 6 Phileb|          lent a strange power to evil. And sometimes, as at the
 7 Phileb| commensurate with moral good and evil. We should hardly say that
 8 Phileb|           leading men to ask how evil may be diminished and good
 9 Phileb|         of the world, not wholly evil or wholly good, is supposed
10 Phileb|          great good or for great evil. But true religion is the
11 Phileb|           Philebus, be perfectly evil. And therefore the infinite
12 Phileb|       state of pain, which is an evil, and the other a cessation
13 Phileb|      clownishness, are surely an evil?~PROTARCHUS: To be sure.~
14 Phileb|          this be truly called an evil condition?~PROTARCHUS: Very
15 Phileb|      condition?~PROTARCHUS: Very evil.~SOCRATES: But we must pursue
16 Phileb|          ignorance was always an evil?~PROTARCHUS: True.~SOCRATES: