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and if he does
happen to trip,1 we must concede to him
the power to correct his mistakes by his ability to speak persuasively if
any of his misdeeds come to light, and when force is needed, to employ force
by reason of his manly spirit and vigor and his provision of friends and
money; and when we have set up an unjust man of this character, our theory
must set the just man at his side—a simple and noble man, who, in
the phrase of Aeschylus, does not wish to seem but be good. Then we must
deprive him of the seeming.2 For if he is going to be
thought just
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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