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Ideas of Hippias, by Text

[Greek, c.470 - 410 BCE, Born at Elis in Greece. A sophist.]

430BCE

fragments/reports

	p.255	1556	By nature people are close to one another, but culture drives them apart
			Full Idea: I regard you all as relatives - by nature, not by convention. By nature like is akin to like, but convention is a tyrant over humankind and often constrains people to act contrary to nature.
			From: Hippias (fragments/reports [c.430 BCE]), quoted by Plato - Protagoras 337c8