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Theaetetus
Theaet. In whatever way you suggest, I will try to help you in making the division.
Stranger
Str. Do we say that wickedness is distinct from virtue in the soul?
Theaetetus
Theaet. Of course.
Stranger
Str. And purification was retaining the one and throwing out whatever is bad anywhere?
Theaetetus
Theaet. Yes, it was.
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Stranger
Str. Hence whenever we find any removal of evil from the soul, we shall be speaking properly if we call that a purification.
Theaetetus
Theaet. Very properly.
Stranger
Str. We must say that there are two kinds of evil in the soul.
Theaetetus
Theaet. What kinds?
Stranger
Str. The one is comparable to a disease in the body, the other to a deformity.
Theaetetus
Theaet. I do not understand.
Stranger
Str. Perhaps you have not considered that disease and discord are the same thing?
Theaetetus
Theaet. I do not know what reply I ought to make to this, either.
Stranger
Str. Is that because you think discord is anything else than the disagreement of the naturally related, brought about by some corruption?
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Theaetetus
Theaet. No; I think it is nothing else.
Stranger
Str. But is deformity anything else than the presence of the quality of disproportion, which is always ugly?
Theaetetus
Theaet. Nothing else at all.
Stranger
Str. Well then; do we not see that in the souls of worthless men opinions are opposed to desires, anger to pleasures, reason to pain, and all such things to one another?
Theaetetus
Theaet. Yes, they are, decidedly.
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Stranger
Str. Yet they must all be naturally related.
