Or isn’t virtue in tension with wealth, as though each were lying in the scale of a balance, always inclining in opposite directions?
the Republic Of Platoby plato
Wherever the argument, like a wind, tends, thither must we go.
Isn’t there still one other possibility, I said, our persuading you that you must let us go?
For it is not because they fear doing unjust deeds, but because they fear suffering them, that those who blame injustice do so.
When a man comes near to the realization that he will be making an end, fear and care enter him for things to which he gave no thought before. The tales told about what is in Hades — that the one who has done unjust deeds here must pay the penalty there — at which he laughed up to then, now make his soul twist and turn because he fears they might be true.
end / fears / Hades / realization / soul
Now, in my opinion, the procession of the native inhabitants was fine.
For the extreme of injustice is to seem to be just when one is not.
Because a freeman ought not to be a slave in the acquisition of knowledge of any kind. Bodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body; but knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.
So then, perhaps there would be more justice in the bigger and it would be easier to observe closely. If you want, first we’ll investigate what justice is like in the cities. Then, we’ll also go on to consider it in individuals, considering the likeness of the bigger in the idea of the littler?
Wealth, and poverty; the one is the parent of luxury and indolence, and the other of meanness and viciousness, and both of discontent.
discontent / Poverty / wealth