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and practice honorable pursuits and be just,
whether1 one
is known to be such or not, or whether injustice profits, and to be unjust,
if only a man escape punishment and is not bettered by chastisement.2” “Nay, Socrates,” he said,
“I think that from this point on our inquiry becomes an
absurdity3—if, while life is admittedly intolerable with a ruined
constitution of body even though accompanied by all the food and drink and
wealth and power in the world, we are yet to be asked to suppose that, when
the very nature and constitution of that whereby we live4 is
disordered
Plato. Plato in Twelve Volumes, Vols. 5 & 6 translated by Paul Shorey. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1969.
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