पृष्ठ 866 / 1391

Yes, he said, that is the ideal of a judge.

Yes, I replied, and he will be a good man (which is my answer to

your question); for he is good who has a good soul. But the

cunning and suspicious nature of which we spoke,-he who has

committed many crimes, and fancies himself to be a master in

wickedness, when he is amongst his fellows, is wonderful in the

precautions which he takes, because he judges of them by himself:

but when he gets into the company of men of virtue, who have the

experience of age, he appears to be a fool again, owing to his

unseasonable suspicions; he cannot recognise an honest man,

because he has no pattern of honesty in himself; at the same

time, as the bad are more numerous than the good, and he meets

with them oftener, he thinks himself, and is by others thought to

be, rather wise than foolish.

Most true, he said.