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the unjust man in respect of pleasure and
pain!” “And what is more, it is a true number and
pertinent to the lives of men if days and nights and months and years
pertain to them.” “They certainly do,” he
said. “Then if in point of pleasure the victory of the good and
just man over the bad and unjust is so great as this, he will surpass him
inconceivably in decency and beauty of life and virtue.”
“Inconceivably indeed, by Zeus,” he said.“Very good,” said I.
“And now that we have come to this point in the argument,
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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