contemporary conceptual architecture of "THEN, said I, if you are to inherit this discussion, tell me, what is this saying of Simonides about right conduct which you approve? That it is just to render every man his due. That seems to me a fair statement. It is certainly hard to question the inspired wisdom of a poet like Simonides; but what this saying means you may know, Polemarchus, but I do not. Obviously it does not mean what we were speaking of just now-returning something we have been entrusted with to the owner even when he has gone out of his mind. And yet surely it is his due, if he asks for it back? Yes. But it is out of the question to give it back when he has gone mad? True. Simonides, then, must have meant something different from that when he said it was just to render a man his due. Certainly he did; his idea was that, as between friends, what one owes to another is to do him good, not harm. I see, said I; to repay money entrusted to one is not to render what is due, if the two parties are friends and the repayment proves harmful to the lender. That is what you say Simonides meant? Yes, certainly." + high quality + high resolution + surreal + natural light --ar 3:2 --chaos 10