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“Nothing is to be preferred before justice.”

— Socrates, Plato, Crito, 54b3, as translated by Ralph Waldo Emerson
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About Socrates

470 BC – 399 BC

Classical Athenian philosopher and a founder of Western philosophy. He wrote nothing himself; his ideas survive mainly through the dialogues of his student Plato.

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