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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Lysis by Plato: 'the beautiful is the friend,' as the old proverb says. Beauty is
certainly a soft, smooth, slippery thing, and therefore of a nature which
easily slips in and permeates our souls. For I affirm that the good is the
beautiful. You will agree to that?
Yes.
This I say from a sort of notion that what is neither good nor evil is the
friend of the beautiful and the good, and I will tell you why I am inclined
to think so: I assume that there are three principles--the good, the bad,
and that which is neither good nor bad. You would agree--would you not?
I agree.
And neither is the good the friend of the good, nor the evil of the evil,
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