[366e]
self-styled advocates of justice, from the heroes of old
whose discourses survive to the men of the present day, not one has ever
censured injustice or commended justice otherwise than in respect of the
repute, the honors, and the gifts that accrue from each. But what each one
of them is in itself, by its own inherent force, when it is within the soul
of the possessor and escapes the eyes of both gods and men, no one has ever
adequately set forth in poetry or prose—the proof that the one is
the greatest of all evils that the soul contains within itself, while
justice is the greatest good.
Plato. Plato in Twelve Volumes, Vols. 5 & 6 translated by Paul Shorey. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1969.
The Annenberg CPB/Project provided support for entering this text.
Purchase a copy of this text (not necessarily the same edition) from Amazon.com
This work is licensed under a
Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 United States License.
An XML version of this text is available for download, with the additional restriction that you offer Perseus any modifications you make. Perseus provides credit for all accepted changes, storing new additions in a versioning system.