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he will have honors and
gifts because of that esteem. We cannot be sure in that case whether he is
just for justice' sake or for the sake of the gifts and the honors. So we
must strip him bare of everything but justice and make his state the
opposite of his imagined counterpart.1 Though
doing no wrong he must have the repute of the greatest injustice, so that he
may be put to the test as regards justice through not softening because of
ill repute and the consequences thereof. But let him hold on his course
unchangeable even unto death,
1 For the thought cf. Euripides Helen 270-271.
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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