Dialogue

 1 Repub|   advantage or profit or gain or interest, for this sort of nonsense
 2 Repub|         is nothing else than the interest of the stronger. And now
 3 Repub|      Justice, as you say, is the interest of the stronger. What, Thrasymachus,
 4 Repub|         of justice, which is the interest of the government; and as
 5 Repub|         of justice, which is the interest of the stronger. ~Now I
 6 Repub|          yourself used the word "interest," which you forbade me to
 7 Repub|      both agreed that justice is interest of some sort, but you go
 8 Repub|          them agreeably to their interest; when they are mistaken,
 9 Repub|      mistaken, contrary to their interest; you admit that? ~Yes. ~
10 Repub|        not only obedience to the interest of the stronger, but the
11 Repub|         mistaken about their own interest in what they command, and
12 Repub|        justice not to be for the interest of the stronger, when the
13 Repub|          do, not what is for the interest, but what is for the injury
14 Repub|        what is not for their own interest, and that for subjects to
15 Repub|         said that justice is the interest of the stronger, and, while
16 Repub|          what is not for his own interest; whence follows that justice
17 Repub|      injury quite as much as the interest of the stronger. ~But, said
18 Repub|      Cleitophon, he meant by the interest of the stronger what the
19 Repub|       stronger thought to be his interest, whether really so or not? ~
20 Repub|        that which is for his own interest; and the subject is required
21 Repub|       now repeat, justice is the interest of the stronger. ~Indeed,
22 Repub|          ruler or stronger whose interest, as you were saying, he
23 Repub|         I said, every art has an interest? ~Certainly. ~For which
24 Repub|         the aim of art. ~And the interest of any art is the perfection
25 Repub|        have only to consider the interest of their subject-matter.
26 Repub|   medicine does not consider the interest of medicine, but the interest
27 Repub|    interest of medicine, but the interest of the body? ~True, he said. ~
28 Repub|         considers or enjoins the interest of the stronger or superior,
29 Repub|        or superior, but only the interest of the subject and weaker? ~
30 Repub|    provide and prescribe for the interest of the sailor who is under
31 Repub|       for his own or the ruler's interest? ~He gave a reluctant "Yes." ~
32 Repub|      enjoins what is for his own interest, but always what is for
33 Repub|       but always what is for the interest of his subject or suitable
34 Repub|        good; that is to say, the interest of the ruler and stronger,
35 Repub|      subjects do what is for his interest, and minister to his happiness,
36 Repub|         at first, justice is the interest of the stronger, whereas
37 Repub|        is a man's own profit and interest. ~Thrasymachus, when he
38 Repub|          does not regard his own interest, but always that of his
39 Repub|         nature to regard his own interest, but that of his subjects;
40 Repub| Thrasymachus that justice is the interest of the stronger. This latter
41 Repub|       same road, following their interest, which all natures deem
42 Repub|        is another's good and the interest of the stronger, and that
43 Repub|        is a man's own profit and interest, though injurious to the
44 Repub|          finding how keen is the interest which not only the slaves
45 Repub|         that what they think the interest of the State is to be the
46 Repub|     knowledge of what is for the interest of each of the three parts
47 Repub|      truth about matters of high interest which a man honors and loves,
48 Repub|         as one in whom he has an interest, and the other as a stranger
49 Repub|       stranger in whom he has no interest? ~Exactly. ~But would any
50 Repub|          they will have a common interest in the same thing which
51 Repub|           and having this common interest they will have a common
52 Repub|   however, this latter by way of interest, and at the same time have
53 Repub|         by their ruin; they take interest from them and buy up their
54 Repub|       parts and sees anything of interest. ~Very true, he said. ~And