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he
replied. “Then,” said I, “to act unjustly and
be unjust and in turn to act justly the meaning of all these terms becomes
at once plain and clear, since injustice and justice are so.”
“How so?” “Because,” said I,
“these are in the soul what1 the healthful and the
diseaseful are in the body; there is no difference.” “In
what respect?” he said. “Healthful things surely
engender health2 and diseaseful disease.”
“Yes.” “Then does not doing just acts engender
justice
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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