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employed by
both laymen and poets. All with one accord reiterate that soberness and
righteousness are fair and honorable, to be sure, but unpleasant and
laborious, while licentiousness and injustice are pleasant and easy to win
and are only in opinion and by convention disgraceful. They say that
injustice pays better than justice, for the most part, and they do not
scruple to felicitate bad men who are rich or have other kinds of power to
do them honor in public and private, and to dishonor
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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