Dialogue

  1 Repub|          the just and harm to the unjust? ~I like that better. ~But
  2 Repub|     injured are of necessity made unjust? ~That is the result. ~But
  3 Repub|          just by justice make men unjust, or speaking generally,
  4 Repub|          the opposite, who is the unjust? ~I think that what you
  5 Repub|           breaker of the law, and unjust. And that is what I mean
  6 Repub|          ideas about the just and unjust as not even to know that
  7 Repub|   injustice the opposite; for the unjust is lord over the truly simple
  8 Repub|      loser in comparison with the unjust. First of all, in private
  9 Repub|           contracts: wherever the unjust is the partner of the just
 10 Repub|     partnership is dissolved, the unjust man has always more and
 11 Repub|         man will pay more and the unjust less on the same amount
 12 Repub|       reversed in the case of the unjust man. I am speaking, as before,
 13 Repub|        which the advantage of the unjust is most apparent; and my
 14 Repub|     granting that there may be an unjust man who is able to commit
 15 Repub|         says that the life of the unjust is more advantageous than
 16 Repub|         all the advantages of the unjust which Thrasymachus was rehearsing? ~
 17 Repub|           discretion. ~And do the unjust appear to you to be wise
 18 Repub|          are able to be perfectly unjust, and who have the power
 19 Repub|  honorable and strong, and to the unjust you will attribute all the
 20 Repub|        gain an advantage over the unjust; would that be considered
 21 Repub|      considered by him as just or unjust? ~He would think it just,
 22 Repub|       claim to have more than the unjust? ~Yes, he would. ~And what
 23 Repub|           would. ~And what of the unjust - does he claim to have
 24 Repub|       more than all men. ~And the unjust man will strive and struggle
 25 Repub|           his unlike, whereas the unjust desires more than both his
 26 Repub|          that statement. ~And the unjust is good and wise, and the
 27 Repub|          he said. ~And is not the unjust like the wise and good,
 28 Repub|            Thrasymachus, that the unjust goes beyond both his like
 29 Repub|        the wise and good, and the unjust like the evil and ignorant? ~
 30 Repub|         be wise and good, and the unjust evil and ignorant. ~Thrasymachus
 31 Repub|          deny that a State may be unjust and may be unjustly attempting
 32 Repub|           best and most perfectly unjust State will be most likely
 33 Repub|         they are. But, if so, the unjust will be the enemy of the
 34 Repub|         better and abler than the unjust, and that the unjust are
 35 Repub|          the unjust, and that the unjust are incapable of common
 36 Repub|       whole villains, and utterly unjust, they would have been utterly
 37 Repub|         and happier life than the unjust is a further question which
 38 Repub|           will live well, and the unjust man will live ill? ~That
 39 Repub|        the just is happy, and the unjust miserable? ~So be it. ~But
 40 Repub|          always better than to be unjust? ~I should wish really to
 41 Repub|         view, for the life of the unjust is after all better far
 42 Repub|       therefore I will praise the unjust life to the utmost of my
 43 Repub|          have not the power to be unjust will best appear if we imagine
 44 Repub|          both to the just and the unjust power to do what they will,
 45 Repub|         the very act the just and unjust man to be proceeding along
 46 Repub|        put on one of them and the unjust the other; no man can be
 47 Repub|          be as the actions of the unjust; they would both come at
 48 Repub|      thinks that he can safely be unjust, there he is unjust. For
 49 Repub|     safely be unjust, there he is unjust. For all men believe in
 50 Repub|          the life of the just and unjust, we must isolate them; there
 51 Repub|       effected? I answer: Let the unjust man be entirely unjust,
 52 Repub|        the unjust man be entirely unjust, and the just man entirely
 53 Repub|  respective lives. First, let the unjust be like other distinguished
 54 Repub|       recover himself. So let the unjust make his unjust attempts
 55 Repub|           let the unjust make his unjust attempts in the right way,
 56 Repub|         say that in the perfectly unjust man we must assume the most
 57 Repub|         him, while doing the most unjust acts, to have acquired the
 58 Repub|      being just and seeming to be unjust. When both have reached
 59 Repub|           just man who is thought unjust will be scourged, racked,
 60 Repub|          more truly spoken of the unjust than of the just. For the
 61 Repub|         than of the just. For the unjust is pursuing a reality; he
 62 Repub| appearances-he wants to be really unjust and not to seem only - ~"
 63 Repub|         in making the life of the unjust better than the life of
 64 Repub|        advantages accruing to the unjust from the reputation of justice.
 65 Repub|        just who are reputed to be unjust; nothing else does their
 66 Repub|         an enemy, whether just or unjust, at a small cost; with magic
 67 Repub|      unmistakable. But if, though unjust, I acquire the reputation
 68 Repub|            then, we had better be unjust, and offer of the fruits
 69 Repub|         injustice; but, if we are unjust, we shall keep the gains,
 70 Repub|     posterity will suffer for our unjust deeds." Yes, my friend,
 71 Repub|          he is not angry with the unjust, but is very ready to forgive
 72 Repub|        has not the power of being unjust. And this is proved by the
 73 Repub|            he immediately becomes unjust as far as he can be. ~The
 74 Repub|           be less likely than the unjust to make away with a deposit
 75 Repub|       this condition he will call unjust action, and the opinion
 76 Repub|         acting unjustly and being unjust, or, again, of acting justly,
 77 Repub|        actions cause justice, and unjust actions cause injustice? ~
 78 Repub|         of gods and men, or to be unjust and act unjustly, if only
 79 Repub|       injustice and the perfectly unjust, that we might have an ideal.
 80 Repub|           again. ~And of just and unjust, good and evil, and of every
 81 Repub|           which will not be found unjust; or of the holy, which will
 82 Repub|          differs from that of the unjust must consider. ~And what
 83 Repub|     coward-can he, I say, ever be unjust or hard in his dealings? ~
 84 Repub|          good or evil, or just or unjust, all in accordance with
 85 Repub|          or not. ~But is not this unjust? he said; ought we to give
 86 Repub|           by the side of the most unjust, and when we see them we
 87 Repub|           just and most perfectly unjust; and to go through all the
 88 Repub|             Also they are utterly unjust, if we were right in our
 89 Repub|     jealous, more faithless, more unjust, more friendless, more impious,
 90 Repub|           that the worst and most unjust man is also the most miserable,
 91 Repub|           just man overthrown the unjust in this conflict; and now
 92 Repub|       separates the just from the unjust in regard to pleasure and
 93 Repub|          pleasure to the evil and unjust, his superiority will be
 94 Repub|           a gain to the perfectly unjust who was reputed to be just? ~
 95 Repub|          the human creature to be unjust, and unprofitable to be
 96 Repub|         us gently reason with the unjust, who is not intentionally
 97 Repub|       error of supposing that the unjust and foolish man, when he
 98 Repub|          souls of men become more unjust in consequence of death. ~
 99 Repub|        assumed to be fatal to the unjust, and that those who take
100 Repub|        injustice, if fatal to the unjust, will not be so very terrible
101 Repub|        the just man should appear unjust and the unjust just: for
102 Repub|      should appear unjust and the unjust just: for you were of opinion
103 Repub|       nature both of the just and unjust is truly known to the gods. ~
104 Repub|     neglected by him. ~And of the unjust may not the opposite be
105 Repub|          will see that the clever unjust are in the case of runners,
106 Repub|      attributing to the fortunate unjust. I shall say of them, what
107 Repub|         on the other hand, of the unjust I say that the greater number,
108 Repub|         which await both just and unjust after death. And you ought
109 Repub|            and then both just and unjust will have received from
110 Repub|            and in like manner the unjust were bidden by them to descend
111 Repub|           will make his soul more unjust, and good to the life which