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Quotation from Laws by Plato
“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”
Laws, Book I, trans. Jowett
Cleinias explains that the Cretan view of life as constant war extends even to the war each person wages within.
Citation: "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" — Plato, Laws, Book I, trans. Jowett. (id plato-laws-q2)
