The Republic, by Plato. Part III.
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The Three Principles of Justice
Socrates: If two things, a greater and less, are called by the same name, are they like or unlike in so far as they are called the same? Like, he replied. The just man, then, if we regard the idea of justice only, will be like the just state, they will. And so of the individual. We may assume that he has the same three principles in his own soul, which we find in the state,. because he is affected in the same manner. An easy question. Nay, rather, Socrates, the proverb holds that hard is the good. I do not think that the method which we are employing is at all adequate to the accurate solution
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