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I think I shall never be overthrown, and I believe it is safe for me or anyone else to give this answer, that beautiful things are beautiful through beauty. Do you agree?”“I do.”“And great things are great and greater things greater by greatness, and smaller things smaller by smallness?”“Yes.”“And you would not accept the statement, if you were told that one man was greater or smaller than another by a head,
Plato. Plato in Twelve Volumes, Vol. 1 translated by Harold North Fowler; Introduction by W.R.M. Lamb. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1966.
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