[367a]
For if you had all spoken in this way from the
beginning and from our youth up had sought to convince us, we should not now
be guarding against one another's injustice, but each would be his own best
guardian, for fear lest by working injustice he should dwell in communion
with the greatest of evils.1 This, Socrates, and perhaps even more than this, Thrasymachus and
haply another might say in pleas for and against justice and injustice,
inverting their true potencies, as I believe, grossly. But I—
1 Cf. 363 E.
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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