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The Republic of Plato — trans. Benjamin Jowett
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“Behold! human beings living in an underground den... they see only their own shadows, or the shadows of one another, which the fire throws on the opposite wall of the cave.”— Republic, Book VII (514a–515a), trans. Benjamin Jowett
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