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is justice, and that whereby we know how to distinguish our own and others' quality is temperance?It seems so, he said.Then justice and temperance are the same thing?Apparently.And further, it is thus, you know, that cities are well ordered—when the wrongdoers pay the penalty.That is true, he said.Hence this is also statecraft.He concurred.Again, when one man governs a city rightly, is he not called a despot and king?I agree.And he governs by a kingly and despotic art?That is so.And these arts are the same as the former?Apparently.
Plato. Plato in Twelve Volumes, Vol. 8 translated by W.R.M. Lamb. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1955.
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