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"The heaviest penalty for declining to rule is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself."

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Plato was an ancient Greek philosopher and the founder of the Academy in Athens. He was a student of Socrates and the teacher of Aristotle, and his dialogues are foundational texts in Western philosophy.

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