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Full Idea
Socrates: We should avoid doing wrong because of all the bad consequences it will bring us.
Gist of Idea
Should we avoid evil because it will bring us bad consequences?
Source
Plato (Gorgias [c.378 BCE], 480a)
Book Ref
Plato: 'Gorgias', ed/tr. Waterfield,Robin [OUP World's Classics 1994], p.60