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by my own fault, not
yours. But just as gluttons1 snatch at
every dish that is handed along and taste it before they have properly
enjoyed the preceding, so I, methinks, before finding the first object of
our inquiry—what justice is—let go of that and set out
to consider something about it, namely whether it is vice and ignorance or
wisdom and virtue; and again, when later the view was sprung upon us that
injustice is more profitable than justice I could not refrain from turning
to that from the other topic. So that for me
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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