Motif
Appearance of virtue rewarded over virtue itself
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A motif of the Divine Judgment and Moral Reckoning family, within the sub-family Moral Causality and Consequence. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
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greek
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The Republic THE REPUBLIC. / PERSONS OF THE DIALOGUE. / BOOK I. / BOOK II.; lines 10549-10633 confidence: high
Glaucon reports that eulogists of injustice would say the just man thought unjust will be scourged, racked, bound, blinded, and finally impaled.
The passage contrasts a just man reputed unjust, who suffers, with an unjust man reputed just, who gains power, wealth, and honor.
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