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speaks truly and the panegyrist of
injustice falsely. For whether we consider pleasure, reputation, or profit,
he who commends justice speaks the truth, while there is no soundness or
real knowledge of what he censures in him who disparages it.”
“None whatever, I think,” said he. “Shall we,
then, try to persuade him gently,1 for he does not willingly
err,2 by
questioning him thus: Dear friend, should we not also say that the things
which law and custom deem fair or foul have been accounted so for a like
reason—
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