An idea from The Republic

Then Glaucon sets the hardest test. Picture a perfectly unjust man with a spotless name, and a perfectly just man everyone takes for a criminal, whipped, tortured and finally impaled. Prove the second life is better with every reward and every good name stripped away.

From The Republic by Plato

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