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and that if we ever say that any men who are unjust have
vigorously combined to put something over, our statement is not altogether
true, for they would not have kept their hands from one another if they had
been thoroughly unjust, but it is obvious that there was in them some
justice which prevented them from wronging at the same time one another too
as well as those whom they attacked; and by dint of this they accomplished
whatever they did and set out to do injustice only half corrupted1 by
injustice, since utter rascals completely unjust
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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