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who went up to the king, and
on coming there he seduced the king's wife and with her aid set upon the
king and slew him and possessed his kingdom. If now there should be two such
rings, and the just man should put on one and the unjust the other, no one
could be found, it would seem, of such adamantine1 temper as to persevere in justice and endure to refrain his hands
from the possessions of others and not touch them, though he might with
impunity take what he wished even from the marketplace,
1 The word is used of the firmness of moral faith in Gorgias 509 A and Republic 618 E.
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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