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Let him be the best of men, and let him be thought the worst;

then he will have been put to the proof; and we shall see whether

he will be affected by the fear of infamy and its consequences.

And let him continue thus to the hour of death; being just and

seeming to be unjust. When both have reached the uttermost

extreme, the one of justice and the other of injustice, let

judgment be given which of them is the happier of the two.

Heavens! my dear Glaucon, I said, how energetically you polish

them up for the decision, first one and then the other, as if

they were two statues.