The Republic, by Plato. Part I.
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The Superiority of Justice and Injustice
Socrates: No one has ever adequately described the true essential nature of either justice or injustice. I dare say that Trasymachus and others would seriously hold the language which I have been merely repeating, he says. He asks Socrates to show what they either of them do to the possessor of them,. which makes the one to be a good and the other an evil. Either seen or unseen by God's and men. Let us praise justice and censor injustice, magnifying the rewards and honors of the one and abusing the other. And yet I am afraid there would be impiety being present when justice is spoken of not lifting up a hand in her defense; therefore I give such help
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