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Quotation from Critias by Plato
“They despised everything but virtue, caring little for their present state of life, and thinking lightly of the possession of gold and other property, which seemed only a burden to them”
Critias, Stephanus 120e, trans. Benjamin Jowett (1892)
The kings of Atlantis in their early generations, while the divine nature still lasted in them.
Citation: "They despised everything but virtue, caring little for their present state of life, and thinking lightly of the possession of gold and other property, which seemed only a burden to them" — Plato, Critias, Stephanus 120e, trans. Benjamin Jowett (1892). (id plato-critias-q7)
