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Certainly, I said.

And would you not recognize a third class, such as gymnastic, and

the care of the sick, and the physician's art; also the various

ways of money-making-these do us good but we regard them as

disagreeable; and no one would choose them for their own sakes,

but only for the sake of some reward or result which flows from

them?

There is, I said, this third class also. But why do you ask?

Because I want to know in which of the three classes you would

place justice?

In the highest class, I replied,-among those goods which he who

would be happy desires both for their own sake and for the sake

of their results.

Then the many are of another mind; they think that justice is to

be reckoned in the troublesome class, among goods which are to be

pursued for the sake of rewards and of reputation, but in

themselves are disagreeable and rather to be avoided.