…it’s better in fact to be guilty of manslaughter than of fraud about what is fair and just.

Plato The Republic and Other Works
Also known as: Πλάτων, Plátōn
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Plato (Πλάτων Plátōn; c. 427 BC – c. 347 BC) was a Greek philosopher from Athens during the Classical period in Ancient Greece, founder of the Platonist school of thought and the Academy (Akademia), the first institution of higher learning in the Western world.

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