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Then an evil soul must necessarily be an evil ruler and

superintendent, and the good soul a good ruler?

Yes, necessarily.

And we have admitted that justice is the excellence of the soul,

and injustice the defect of the soul?

That has been admitted.

Then the just soul and the just man will live well, and the

unjust man will live ill?

That is what your argument proves.

And he who lives well is blessed and happy, and he who lives ill

the reverse of happy?

Certainly.

Then the just is happy, and the unjust miserable?

So be it.

But happiness and not misery is profitable.

Of course.

Then, my blessed Thrasymachus, injustice can never be more

profitable than justice.

Let this, Socrates, he said, be your entertainment at the

Bendidea.