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between absolute justice and absolute injustice. Or do you not
remember?” “It would be unjust of me,1” he said, “if I did
not.” “Well, then, now that they have been compared and
judged, I demand back from you in behalf of justice the repute that she in
fact enjoys2 from gods and men, and I ask that we
admit that she is thus esteemed in order that she may gather in the
prizes3 which she wins from the seeming and bestows on her
possessors, since she has been proved to bestow the blessings that come from
the reality and not to deceive those who truly seek and win her.”
“That is a just demand,” he said.
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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