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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: Yes.
Then that which is neither good nor evil becomes the friend of good, by
reason of the presence of evil?
So we may infer.
And clearly this must have happened before that which was neither good nor
evil had become altogether corrupted with the element of evil--if itself
had become evil it would not still desire and love the good; for, as we
were saying, the evil cannot be the friend of the good.
Impossible.
Further, I must observe that some substances are assimilated when others
are present with them; and there are some which are not assimilated: take,
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