The Republic · ¶4953

Evil, God not the author of, 2. 364, 379, 380 A; 3. 391 E [cp. Laws 2. 672 B]; the destructive element in the soul, 10. 609 foll. (cp. 4. 444): —justice must exist even among the evil, 1. 351 foll.; their supposed prosperity, 2. 364 [cp. Gorg. 470 foll.; Laws 2. 66 1; 10. 899, 905]; more numerous than the good, 3. 409 D. Cp. Injustice.

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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