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Quotation from Gorgias by Plato
“whereas nature herself intimates that it is just for the better to have more than the worse, the more powerful than the weaker”
Gorgias, 483d, trans. Benjamin Jowett (1892)
Callicles' statement of natural justice, set against the conventional justice that he says the weak majority impose.
Citation: "whereas nature herself intimates that it is just for the better to have more than the worse, the more powerful than the weaker" — Plato, Gorgias, 483d, trans. Benjamin Jowett (1892). (id plato-gorgias-q5)
