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“Probably all laws are useless; for good men do not want laws at all, and bad men are made no better by them.”

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Demonax

Demonax, a Greek philosopher born in 70 AD and died in 170 AD, is one of the important representatives of Stoic philosophy. He is renowned for his profound research and dissemination of Stoic philosophy. more

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