The Republic, by Plato. Part I.
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The Importance of Justice
If you could imagine anyone obtaining the power of becoming invisible and never doing any wrong or touching what was another's, he would be thought by the lookers on to be a most wretched idiot. For all men believe in their hearts that injustice is far more profitable to the individual than justice. So let the unjust make his unjust attempts in the right way and lie hidden if he means to be great in his injustice. He who was found out is nobody. The highest reach of injustice is to be deemed just when you are not. Therefore, I say that in the perfectly unjust man we must assume the most perfect injustice. If we have taken a false step, he must be able to recover himself
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