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of
one's own and what belongs to oneself would admittedly be
justice.” “That is so.” “Consider
now1 whether you agree with me. A carpenter
undertaking to do the work of a cobbler or a cobbler of a carpenter or their
interchange of one another's tools or honors or even the attempt of the same
man to do both—the confounding of all other functions would not,
think you, greatly injure a state, would it?” “Not
much,” he said. “But when I fancy one who is by nature
an artisan or some kind of money-maker
1 A further confirmation. For what follows cf. 421 A.
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