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...Socrates is now going to identify the individual and the

State. But first he must prove that there are three parts of the

individual soul. His argument is as follows:-Quantity makes no

difference in quality. The word 'just,' whether applied to the

individual or to the State, has the same meaning. And the term

'justice' implied that the same three principles in the State and

in the individual were doing their own business. But are they

really three or one? The question is difficult, and one which can

hardly be solved by the methods which we are now using; but the

truer and longer way would take up too much of our time. 'The

shorter will satisfy me.' Well then, you would admit that the

qualities of states mean the qualities of the individuals who

compose them?