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in so far forth as ruler does not
err, and not erring he enacts what is best for himself, and this the subject
must do, so that, even as I meant from the start, I say the just is to do
what is for the advantage of the stronger.”“So then, Thrasymachus,” said I,
“my manner of argument seems to you pettifogging?”
“It does,” he said. “You think, do you, that
it was with malice aforethought and trying to get the better of you unfairly
that I asked that question?” “I don't think it, I know
it,” he said, “and you won't make anything by it, for
you won't get the better of me by stealth and
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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