“Reading Plato should be easy; understanding Plato can be difficult.”
Robin Waterfield
Republic
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“Plato is widely believed to have been a student of Socrates and to have been deeply influenced by his teacher's unjust death. Plato's brilliance as a writer and thinker can be witnessed by reading his Socratic dialogues. Some of the dialogues, letters, and other works that are ascribed to him are considered spurious”
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“Diogenes, filthily attired, paced across the splendid carpets in Plato's dwelling. Thus, said he, do I trample on the pride of Plato. Yes, Plato replied, but only with another kind of pride.”
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
“Plato was a bore.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
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