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Further, we affirmed that justice was doing one's own business,

and not being a busybody; we said so again and again, and many

others have said the same to us.

Yes, we said so.

Then to do one's own business in a certain way may be assumed to

be justice. Can you tell me whence I derive this inference?

I cannot, but I should like to be told.

Because I think that this is the only virtue which remains in the

State when the other virtues of temperance and courage and wisdom

are abstracted; and, that this is the ultimate cause and

condition of the existence of all of them, and while remaining in

them is also their preservative; and we were saying that if the

three were discovered by us, justice would be the fourth or

remaining one.

That follows of necessity.