The Republic, by Plato. Part I.
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The End of a Horse
"No light matter is at stake, nothing less than the rule of human life," he said. "Should you not say that a horse has some end? I should." He went on to ask whether things which fulfill their ends fulfill them by their own proper excellence and fail of fulfilling them bytheir own defect. And if so, an evil soul must necessarily be an evil ruler and superintendent,. Good soul a good ruler. Justice is the excellence of the soul and injustice the defect of the soul. Then, the just soul and the just man will live well, and the unjust man will live ill. That is what your argument proves.
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