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Injustice is all this with respect to the Unjust: and since the

Unjust is excess or defect of what is good or hurtful

respectively, in violation of the proportionate, therefore

Injustice is both excess and defect because it aims at producing

excess and defect; excess, that is, in a man's own case of what

is simply advantageous, and defect of what is hurtful: and in the

case of other men in like manner generally speaking, only that

the proportionate is violated not always in one direction as

before but whichever way it happens in the given case. And of the

Unjust act the less is being acted unjustly towards, and the

greater the acting unjustly towards others.[20]

Let this way of describing the nature of Justice and Injustice,

and likewise the Just and the Unjust generally, be accepted as

sufficient.

Chapter X.