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| | Plato, Laws, 348 BC |
 | | Plato (~428-~348 BC) — One of the greatest and most influential Greek philosophers, he was a disciple of Socrates and the teacher of Aristotle. |
| | Laws (348 BC) — Plato concentrated his declining powers on recording a code of laws which he hoped some Hellenic state might sanction. |
| | This disagreement between the sense of pleasure and the judgment of reason in the soul is, in my opinion, the worst ignorance; and also the greatest, because affecting the great mass of the human soul; for the principle which feels pleasure and pain in the individual is like the mass or populace in a state. |
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