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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.
         

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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