One who is injured ought not to return the injury, for on no account can it be right to do an injustice; and it is not right to return an injury, or to do evil to any man, however much we have suffered from him.
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Those who reproach injustice do so because they are afraid not of doing it but of suffering it.
To go to the world below, having a soul which is like a vessel full of injustice, is the last and worst of all the evils.
There will be no injustice in compelling our philosophers to have a care and providence of others; we shall explain to them that in other States, men of their class are not obligated to share in the toils of politics: and this is reasonable, for they grow up at their own sweet will, and the government would rather not have them.
They say that to do injustice is, by nature, good; to suffer injustice, evil; but that the evil is greater than the good.
But I speak in this vehement manner, as I must frankly confess to you, because I want to hear from you the opposite side; and I would ask you to show not only the superiority which justice has over injustice, but what effect they have on the possessor of them which makes the one to be a good and the other an evil to him.
For the extreme of injustice is to seem to be just when one is not.
For it is not because they fear doing unjust deeds, but because they fear suffering them, that those who blame injustice do so.
A love that does not discriminate seems to me to forfeit a part of its own value, by doing an injustice to its object; and secondly, not all men are worthy of love.
Better the whole people perish than that injustice be done.
