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Well then, proceed with your answers, and let me have the

remainder of my repast. For we have already shown that the just

are clearly wiser and better and abler than the unjust, and that

the unjust are incapable of common action; nay more, that to

speak as we did of men who are evil acting at any time vigorously

together, is not strictly true, for if they had been perfectly

evil, they would have laid hands upon one another; but it is

evident that there must have been some remnant of justice in

them, which enabled them to combine; if there had not been they

would have injured one another as well as their victims; they

were but half-villains in their enterprises; for had they been

whole villains, and utterly unjust, they would have been utterly

incapable of action. That, as I believe, is the truth of the

matter, and not what you said at first. But whether the just have

a better and happier life than the unjust is a further question

which we also proposed to consider.