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"Violent pleasures which reach the soul through the body are generally of this sort-they are reliefs of pain."

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Profligacy

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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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