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Now as for being justly dealt with, the position that every case

of this is voluntary is a strange one, for some are certainly

justly dealt with without their will.[27] The fact is a man may

also fairly raise this question, whether in every case he who has

suffered what is unjust is therefore unjustly dealt with, or

rather that the case is the same with suffering as it is with

acting; namely that in both it is possible to participate in what

is just, but only accidentally. Clearly the case of what is

unjust is similar: for doing things in themselves unjust is not

identical with acting unjustly, nor is suffering them the same as

being unjustly dealt with. So too of acting justly and being

justly dealt with, since it is impossible to be unjustly dealt

with unless some one else acts unjustly or to be justly dealt

with unless some one else acts justly.