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nor injustice that you
censure, but the seeming, and that you really are exhorting us to be unjust
but conceal it, and that you are at one with Thrasymachus in the opinion
that justice is other man's good,1 the advantage of the other, and that injustice is advantageous and
profitible to oneself but disadvantageous to the inferior. Since, then, you
have admitted that justice belongs to the class of those highest goods which
are desirable both for their consequences and still more for their own sake,
as sight, hearing, intelligence, yes and health too,
1 Cf. 343 C.
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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