Destroying those who practice justice

 He has done the greatest of injuries both to me, and, one may say, to all the rest of mankind—they, by destroying the man who purposed to practice justice.  Plato.  Letter 7.  Section 335c.



Image: Tapestry from the series The Story of Caesar and Cleopatra depicting the Bona Dea Scandal where Clodius Pulcher disguised himself as a woman produced by the workshop of Justus van Egmont, 1680, now in the Art Institute of Chicago, courtesy of the museum and Wikimedia Commons.

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