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for the benefits justice
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confers both in this life and the next.
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Honesty is the best policy,
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we've heard Cephalus being concerned
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about returning to others what you owe
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as a way of pleasing the gods in
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the afterlife, and Adeimantus rightly takes this
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kind of argument to mean that justice is simply a virtue
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for the weak, the lame and the unadventurous,
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if you were only concerned with the consequences.
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A real man does not fear the consequences of injustice.
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Rather, Adeimantus' concern,