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virtue generally, in addition, all
the various rewards and wages that they bring to the soul from men and gods,
both while the man still lives and, after his death?”
“There certainly can be none,” he said. “Will
you, then, return to me what you borrowed1 in the argument?”
“What, pray?” “I granted to you that the just
man should seem and be thought to be unjust and the unjust just; for you
thought that, even if the concealment of these things from gods and men was
an impossibility in fact, nevertheless, it ought to be conceded for the sake
of the argument,2 in
order that the decision might be made
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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