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Tag: Socrates
But, my dearest Agathon, it is truth which you cannot contradict; you can without any difficulty contradict Socrates.
There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.
Socrates seems to be the philosophical napkin with which the ensuing cultural thinkers of history wipe their mouths of pedantic ooze.
Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers.
There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.
But, my dearest Agathon, it is truth which you cannot contradict; you can without any difficulty contradict Socrates.