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good man will not find it easy to bear old age and poverty combined, no more will riches ever make a bad man contented and cheerful (Cornford 5).

Cephalus sees having wealth as offering the ability to do right (Cornford 7). Polemarchus sees justice as helping friends and harming enemies (Cornford 7-13). Thrasymachus sees it as a form of power to protect the interest of the stronger (Cornford 14-29).

Plato implies in this dialogue that justice is not an art in the sense of a

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