Dialogue

 1 Repub|          Of course. ~And are you stronger than all these? for if not,
 2 Repub|         than the interest of the stronger. And now why do you not
 3 Repub|           is the interest of the stronger. What, Thrasymachus, is
 4 Repub|   Polydamas, the pancratiast, is stronger than we are, and finds the
 5 Repub|     which is the interest of the stronger. ~Now I understand you,
 6 Repub|     definition the words "of the stronger" are added. ~A small addition,
 7 Repub|         you go on to say "of the stronger"; about this addition I
 8 Repub| obedience to the interest of the stronger, but the reverse? ~What
 9 Repub|          for the interest of the stronger, when the rulers unintentionally
10 Repub|         is for the injury of the stronger? ~Nothing can be clearer,
11 Repub|   justice is the interest of the stronger, and, while admitting both
12 Repub|    further acknowledged that the stronger may command the weaker who
13 Repub|      much as the interest of the stronger. ~But, said Cleitophon,
14 Repub|     meant by the interest of the stronger what the stronger thought
15 Repub|         of the stronger what the stronger thought to be his interest-this
16 Repub|         mean by justice what the stronger thought to be his interest,
17 Repub|          him who is mistaken the stronger at the time when he is mistaken? ~
18 Repub|   justice is the interest of the stronger. ~Indeed, Thrasymachus,
19 Repub|          you speak of a ruler or stronger whose interest, as you were
20 Repub|      enjoins the interest of the stronger or superior, but only the
21 Repub|        interest of the ruler and stronger, and the loss of the subject
22 Repub|       simple and just: he is the stronger, and his subjects do what
23 Repub|   justice is the interest of the stronger, whereas injustice is a
24 Repub|   justice is the interest of the stronger. This latter question need
25 Repub|       was made that injustice is stronger and more powerful than justice,
26 Repub|    virtue, is easily shown to be stronger than injustice, if injustice
27 Repub|        repeating, and words even stronger than these about justice
28 Repub|          and the interest of the stronger, and that injustice is a
29 Repub|      that our auxiliaries, being stronger than our citizens, may not
30 Repub|    harmony of the weaker and the stronger and the middle class, whether
31 Repub|   whether you suppose them to be stronger or weaker in wisdom, or
32 Repub|          him, which is other and stronger than the principle which
33 Repub|       them is that the males are stronger and the females weaker. ~
34 Repub|        captain who is taller and stronger than any of the crew, but
35 Repub|          case of others they are stronger, and there are more of them. ~