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| 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 |