The truth is that we isolate a particular kind of love and appropriate it for the name of love, which really belongs to a wider whole. - Plato

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The truth is that we isolate a particular kind of love and appropriate it for the name of love, which really belongs to a wider whole.

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Plato (Πλάτων Plátōn; c. 427 BC – c. 347 BC) was a Greek philosopher from Athens during the Classical period in Ancient Greece, founder of the Platonist school of thought and the Academy (Akademia), the first institution of higher learning in the Western world.

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Native Name: Πλάτων
Alternative Names: Plátōn • Platon • Aristocles • Αριστοκλής • Ἀριστοκλῆς
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