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to its possessor as if it were a
disease, and that those who catch it die because it kills them by its own
inherent nature, those who have most of it quickest, and those who have less
more slowly, and not, as now in fact happens, that the unjust die owing to
this but by the action of others who inflict the penalty.”
“Nay, by Zeus,” he said, “injustice will not
appear a very terrible thing after all if it is going to be1 fatal to its possessor, for that would be a release from all
troubles.2 But I
rather think it will prove to be quite the contrary,
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