The Republic, by Plato. Part I.
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The Happier of the Two
When both have reached the utmost extreme, the one of justice and the other of injustice, let judgment be given which of them is the happier of the two. This I will proceed to describe, but as you may think the description a little too coarse, but I ask you to suppose, Socrates, that the words which follow are not mine. They will tell you that the just man who is thought unjust will be scourged, racked, bound, will have his eyes burnt out, and at last, after suffering every kind of evil, he will be impaled. The words of escalists may be more truly spoken of the unjust than other just, for the unjust is pursuing a reality
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