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so far as that is possible for
man.” “It is reasonable,” he said,
“that such a one should not be neglected by his like.1” “And must we not think the opposite of the
unjust man?” “Most emphatically.”
“Such then are the prizes of victory which the gods bestow upon
the just.” “So I think, at any rate,” he said.
“But what,” said I, “does he receive from men?
Is not this the case, if we are now to present the reality? Do not your
smart but wicked men fare as those racers do who run well2 from the scratch but not back
from the turn? They bound nimbly away at the start, but in the end
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