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but by all who hear the story of the man who has
committed complete and entire injustice.1 For it is not the fear
of doing2 but of suffering wrong that calls forth the reproaches of
those who revile injustice. Thus, Socrates, injustice on a sufficiently
large scale is a stronger, freer, and a more masterful thing than justice,
and, as I said in the beginning, it is the advantage of the stronger that is
the just, while the unjust is what profits man's self and is for his
advantage.”
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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