The Republic, by Plato. Part I.
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The Relationship Between Justice and Injustice
The just is like the wise and good, and the unjust like the evil and ignorant. Trasymachus made these admissions not fluently as I repeat them, but with extreme reluctance. He then asked whether a state or an army could act at all if they injured one another. If you are right in your view and justice is wisdom, then only with justice,. But if I am right, then without justice. And even if injustice be found in two only, will they not quarrel and fight, and become enemies to one another and to the just? They will.
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