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who has the power of any resources
of mind, money, body, or family should consent to honor justice and not
rather laugh1 when he hears her praised? In
sooth, if anyone is able to show the falsity of these arguments, and has
come to know with sufficient assurance that justice is best, he feels much
indulgence for the unjust, and is not angry with them, but is aware that
except a man by inborn divinity of his nature disdains injustice, or, having
won to knowledge, refrains from it,
1 Aristophanes Clouds 1241.
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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