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“Certainly not,” said he. “But if they
didn't, wouldn't they be more likely to?”
“Assuredly.” “For factions, Thrasymachus, are
the outcome of injustice, and hatreds and internecine conflicts, but justice
brings oneness of mind and love. Is it not so?” “So be
it,” he replied, “not to differ from you.”
“That is good of you, my friend; but tell me this: if it is the
business of injustice to engender hatred wherever it is found, will it not,
when it springs up either among freemen or slaves, cause them to hate and be
at strife with one another, and make them incapable
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