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First of all, in private contracts: wherever the unjust is the

partner of the just you will find that, when the partnership is

dissolved, the unjust man has always more and the just less.

Secondly, in their dealings with the State: when there is an

income-tax, the just man will pay more and the unjust less on the

same amount of income; and when there is anything to be received

the one gains nothing and the other much. Observe also what

happens when they take an office; there is the just man

neglecting his affairs and perhaps suffering other losses, and

getting nothing out of the public, because he is just; moreover

he is hated by his friends and acquaintance for refusing to serve

them in unlawful ways. But all this is reversed in the case of

the unjust man.