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he said,
“hear what I too have to say and see if you agree with me. For
Thrasymachus seems to me to have given up to you too soon, as if he were a
serpent1 that you had charmed, but
I am not yet satisfied with the proof that has been offered about justice
and injustice. For what I desire is to hear what each of them is and what
potency and effect it has in and of itself dwelling in the soul,2 but to dismiss their
rewards and consequences. This, then, is what I propose to do, with your
concurrence. I will renew
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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