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Socrates Quotes: The hardest task needs the lightest hand or else its completion will not lead to freedom but to a tyranny much worse than the one it replaces.
         

The hardest task needs the lightest hand or else its completion will not lead to freedom but to a tyranny much worse than the one it replaces.


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This page presents the quote "The hardest task needs the lightest hand or else its completion will not lead to freedom but to a tyranny much worse than the one it replaces.". Author of this quote is Socrates. This quote is about tasks, hands, tyranny, freedom, completion, hardest, needs,.