"He who steals a little steals with the same wish as he who steals much, but with less power."

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This reflection on equality by Plato resonates across generations. It highlights a fundamental truth about human nature: our continuous search for meaning in equality is what ultimately defines our character and our path forward.

About Plato

Plato was an ancient Greek philosopher of Classical Athens who is most commonly considered the foundational thinker of the Western philosophical tradition. An innovator of the literary dialogue and dialectic forms, Plato influenced all the major areas of theoretical philosophy and practical philosophy, and was the founder of the Academy, a philosophical school in Athens where Plato taught the collection of philosophical theories that would later become known as Platonism.

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