He does not consider that the real punishment of evil-doing is to grow like evil men, and to shun the conversation of the good: and that he who is joined to such men must do and suffer what they by nature do and say to one another, which suffering is not justice but retribution.
For justice is noble, but retribution is only the companion of injustice.

And whether a man escapes punishment or not, he is equally miserable; for in the one case he is not cured, and in the other case he perishes that the rest may be saved.
The glory of man is to follow the better and improve the inferior.

And the soul is that part of man which is most inclined to avoid the evil and dwell with the good.

Wherefore also the soul is second only to the Gods in honour, and in the third place the body is to be esteemed, which often has a false honour.

For honour is not to be given to the fair or the strong, or the swift or the tall, or to the healthy, any more than to their opposites, but to the mean states of all these habits; and so of property and external goods.