Socrates Quotes

Our purpose in founding the city was not to make any one class in it surpassingly happy, but to make the city as a whole as happyas possible.

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• Our purpose in founding the city was not to make any one class in it surpassingly happy, but to make the city as a whole as happyas possible.

  

  Socrates
  • Happy
  • City
  • Purpose