Plato, Alcibiades 1, section 127c

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[127c]

Socrates
It was not so a moment since: but now, what do you mean this time? Does friendship arise where there is no agreement? And is it possible that agreement should arise where some know about the business, but others do not?

Alcibiades
Impossible.

Socrates
And are they doing what is just or unjust, when each man does his own business?

Alcibiades
What is just, of course.

Socrates
And when the citizens do what is just in the city, does not friendship arise among them?

Alcibiades
Again I think that must be so, Socrates.

Socrates
Then whatever do you mean by that friendship or agreement

Plato. Plato in Twelve Volumes, Vol. 8 translated by W.R.M. Lamb. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1955.

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