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By Plato
Further, we affirmed that justice was doing one’s own business, and not being a busybody; we said so again and again, and many others have said the same to us.
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- The Republic, Republic, Book IV
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- Plato, translated by Benjamin Jowett, The Dialogues of Plato (Project Gutenberg text, eBook #1497)
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From Book IV of The Republic, in Benjamin Jowett's translation. Plato wrote it as a dialogue, so the words are Plato's text. Socrates is the speaker, talking with Glaucon as they finally find justice in the ideal city. Jowett's wording is 'doing one's own business', not the popular 'having and doing what is a man's own'.