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I dare say that I may, notwithstanding the danger, if upon

reflection I approve of any of them.

But what if I give you an answer about justice other and better,

he said, than any of these? What do you deserve to have done to

you?

Done to me!-as becomes the ignorant, I must learn from the

wise-that is what I deserve to have done to me.

What, and no payment! a pleasant notion!

I will pay when I have the money, I replied.

But you have, Socrates, said Glaucon: and you, Thrasymachus, need

be under no anxiety about money, for we will all make a

contribution for Socrates.

Yes, he replied, and then Socrates will do as he always

does-refuse to answer himself, but take and pull to pieces the

answer of some one else.