The Republic, by Plato. Part I.
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The Meaning of Justice
Simonides would seem to have spoken darkly of the nature of justice. He really meant to say that justice is the giving to each man what is proper to him, and this he termed a debt. If Socrates we are to be guided at all by the analogy of the preceding instances, then justice is the art which gives good to friends and evil to enemies. That is his meaning, then. I think so. And who is best able to do good to his friends andevil to his enemies in time of sickness, the physician or when they are on a voyage amid the perils of the sea, the pilot? But when a man is well, my dear Palomachus, there
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