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“Now suppose a man who has been elected general enslaves an unjust and hostile city, shall we say that he acts unjustly?”“Oh no!”“We shall say that his actions are just, shall we not?”“Certainly.”“And what if he deceives the enemy when at war?”1“That too is just.”“And if he steals and plunders their goods, will not his actions be just?”“Certainly; but at first I assumed that your questions had reference only to friends.”“Then everything that we assigned to injustice should be assigned to justice also?”“Apparently.”
1 Cyropaedia I, vi. 31, VI. i. 55.
Xenophon. Xenophon in Seven Volumes, 4. E. C. Marchant. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA; William Heinemann, Ltd., London. 1923.
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