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I agree, he said, because I do not wish to quarrel with you.

How good of you, I said; but I should like to know also whether

injustice, having this tendency to arouse hatred, wherever

existing, among slaves or among freemen, will not make them hate

one another and set them at variance and render them incapable of

common action?

Certainly.

And even if injustice be found in two only, will they not quarrel

and fight, and become enemies to one another and to the just?

They will.

And suppose injustice abiding in a single person, would your

wisdom say that she loses or that she retains her natural power?

Let us assume that she retains her power.