There is a victory and defeat, the first and best of victories, the lowest and worst of defeats, which each man gains or sustains at the hands, not of another, but of himself.
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PlatoLaws, Book I, tr. Benjamin Jowett
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Athenian philosopher, student of Socrates and founder of the Academy. (c. 428-348 BC)
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