The Republic · ¶5099

Justice, = to speak the truth and pay one’s debts, 1. 331 foll.; = the interest of the stronger, ib. 338; 2. 367 [cp. Gorg. 489; Laws 4. 714 A]; = honour among thieves, 1. 352; = the excellence of the soul, ib. 353: —the art which gives good and evil to friends and enemies, ib. 332 foll., 336; is a thief, ib. 334; the proper virtue of man, ib. 335; ‘sublime simplicity,’ ib. 348; does not aim at excess, ib. 349; identical with wisdom and virtue, ib. 351; a principle of harmony, ibid. (cp. 9. 591 D); in the highest class of goods, 2. 357, 367 D [cp. Laws 1. 631 C]; the union of wisdom, temperance, and courage, 4. 433 [cp. Laws 1. 631 C]; a division of labour, ibid. foll. (cp. supra, 1. 332, 349, 350, and 1 Alcib. 127): —nature and origin of (Glaucon), 2. 358, 359; conventional, ib. 359 A [cp. Theaet. 172 A, 177 C; Laws 10. 889, 890]; praised for its consequences only (Adeimantus), ib. 362 E, 366; a matter of appearance, ib. 365: —useful alike in war and peace, 1. 333; can do no harm, ib. 335; more precious than gold, ib. 336; toilsome, 2. 364: —compared to health, 4. 444: —the poets on, 2. 363, 364, 365 E: —in perfection, ib. 361: —more profitable than injustice, 4. 445; 9. 589 foll.; superior to injustice, 9. 589; final triumph of, ib. 580; 10. 612, 613: —in the state, 2. 369; 4. 431; the same in the individual and the state, 4. 435 foll., 441 foll.: —absolute justice, 5. 479 E; 6. 501 B; 7. 517 E.

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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