In practice people who study philosophy too long become very odd birds, not to say thoroughly vicious; while even those who are the best of them are … - Plato
" "In practice people who study philosophy too long become very odd birds, not to say thoroughly vicious; while even those who are the best of them are reduced by...[philosophy] to complete uselessness as members of society.
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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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Πλάτων
Alternative Names:
Plátōn
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Platon
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Aristocles
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Αριστοκλής
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Ἀριστοκλῆς
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