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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Gorgias by Plato: CALLICLES: Yes.
SOCRATES: And in this way he will have accomplished, as you and your
friends would say, the end of becoming a great man and not suffering
injury?
CALLICLES: Very true.
SOCRATES: But will he also escape from doing injury? Must not the very
opposite be true,--if he is to be like the tyrant in his injustice, and to
have influence with him? Will he not rather contrive to do as much wrong
as possible, and not be punished?
CALLICLES: True.
SOCRATES: And by the imitation of his master and by the power which he
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