The first and greatest victory is to conquer yourself; to be conquered by yourself is of all things most shameful and vile. - Plato
" "The first and greatest victory is to conquer yourself; to be conquered by yourself is of all things most shameful and vile.
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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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Πλάτων
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Plátōn
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Platon
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Aristocles
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Αριστοκλής
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Ἀριστοκλῆς
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