The Republic · Rep. 605e

Now can we be right in praising and admiring another who is doing that which any one of us would abominate and be ashamed of in his own person?

Plato · translated by Benjamin Jowett · composite transcription based on the 1888 third edition
Benjamin Jowett, revised third edition (1888), with Stephanus numbering from the 1908 edition; composite transcription, Project Gutenberg #55201
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