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or sell a horse. Then, I take it,
the man who knows horses, isn't it so?”
“Apparently.” “And again, if it is a vessel,
the shipwright or the pilot.” “It would seem
so.” “What then is the use of money in common for which
a just man is the better partner?” “When it is to be
deposited and kept safe, Socrates.” “You mean when it is
to be put to no use but is to lie idle1?” “Quite so.” “Then it
is when money is useless that justice is useful in relation to
it?”
1 Interest is ignored. Aristotle, Eth. Nic. 1120 a 9, splits hairs on this.
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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