The Republic, by Plato. Part III.
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The Just Man and the Just State
The just man does not permit the several elements within him to interfere with one another, or any of them to do the work of others. He sets in order his own inner life, and is his own master and his own law,. And when he has bound together the three principles within him, which may be compared to the higher, lower, and middle notes of a scale, then he proceeds to act. If we were to affirm that we had discovered the just man and the just state, and the nature of justice in each of them, we should not be telling a falsehood. Most certainly not. May we say so, then? Let us say so?"
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