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and all other goods that are productive1 by their very nature and not by opinion, this is
what I would have you praise about justice—the benefit which it
and the harm which injustice inherently works upon its possessor. But the
rewards and the honors that depend on opinion, leave to others to praise.
For while I would listen to others who thus commended justice and disparaged
injustice, bestowing their praise and their blame on the reputation and the
rewards of either, I could not accept that sort of thing from you unless you
say I must, because you have passed
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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