Analogy of body and soul. Why, I said, they are like disease and health; being in the soul just what disease and health are in the body. 138
How so? he said.
Why, I said, that which is healthy causes health, and that which is unhealthy causes disease.
Yes.
[D] And just actions cause justice, and unjust actions cause injustice?
That is certain.
Health : disease :: justice : injustice. And the creation of health is the institution of a natural order and government of one by another in the parts of the body; and the creation of disease is the production of a state of things at variance with this natural order?
True.
And is not the creation of justice the institution of a natural order and government of one by another in the parts of the soul, and the creation of injustice the production of a state of things at variance with the natural order?
Exactly so, he said.