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and writers of prose speak wrongly about men in matters
of greatest moment, saying that there are many examples of men who, though
unjust, are happy, and of just men who are wretched, and that there is
profit in injustice if it be concealed, and that justice is the other man's
good and your own loss; and I presume that we shall forbid them to say this
sort of thing and command them to sing and fable the opposite. Don't you
think so?” “Nay, I well know it,” he said.
“Then, if you admit that I am right, I will say that you have
conceded the original point of our inquiry?”
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