It would be better for me that multitudes of men should disagree with me rather than that I, being one, should be out of harmony with myself.
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SocratesPlato, Gorgias 482c
About Socrates
Athenian philosopher known to us mainly through the dialogues of Plato. (c. 470-399 BC)
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