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Full Idea
Virtue is the aim of the laws the legislator lays down.
Gist of Idea
Virtue is the aim of all laws
Source
Plato (The Laws [c.349 BCE], 631a)
Book Ref
Plato: 'The Laws', ed/tr. Saunders,Trevor J [Penguin 1970], p.54