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is due to him
in a sense, is it not?” “Yes.” “But
rendered to him it ought not to be by any manner of means when he demands it
not being his right mind.” “True,” said he.
“It is then something other than this that Simonides must, as it
seems, mean by the saying that it is just to render back what is
due.” “Something else in very deed,” he
replied, “for he believes that friends owe it to friends to do
them some good and no evil.” “I see,” said I;
“you mean that1 he does not
render what is due or owing who returns a deposit of gold
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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