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And this we may truly affirm to be a great proof that a man is

just, not willingly or because he thinks that justice is any good

to him individually, but of necessity, for wherever any one

thinks that he can safely be unjust, there he is unjust. For all

men believe in their hearts that injustice is far more profitable

to the individual than justice, and he who argues as I have been

supposing, will say that they are right. If you could imagine any

one obtaining this 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, although they would

praise him to one another's faces, and keep up appearances with

one another from a fear that they too might suffer injustice.

Enough of this.