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Quotation from Gorgias by Plato

“the next best thing to a man being just is that he should become just, and be chastised and punished”

Plato (spoken by Socrates)

Gorgias, 527b, trans. Benjamin Jowett (1892)

Part of Socrates' closing summary of what remains unshaken after the whole discussion.

Citation: "the next best thing to a man being just is that he should become just, and be chastised and punished" — Plato, Gorgias, 527b, trans. Benjamin Jowett (1892). (id plato-gorgias-q10)

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