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The Republic - Plato ยท 73 words
Why, my good sir, at the beginning of our enquiry, ages ago, there was justice tumbling out at our feet, and we never saw her; nothing could be more ridiculous. Like people who go about looking for what they have in their hands that was the way with us we looked not at what we were seeking, but at what was far off in the distance; and therefore, I suppose, we missed her.
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