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as to grant that justice is holy and holiness just. I think we have to make a distinction here. Yet what difference does it make? he said: if you like, let us assume that justice is holy and holiness just.No, no, I said; I do not want this “if you like” or “if you agree” sort of thing1 to be put to the proof, but you and me together; and when I say “you and me” I mean that our statement will be most properly tested
1 cf. below, Plat. Prot. 333c.
Plato. Plato in Twelve Volumes, Vol. 3 translated by W.R.M. Lamb. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1967.
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