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Plato, by the way, wanted to banish all poets from his proposed Utopia because they were liars.
The truth was that Plato knew philosophers couldn't compete successfully with poets....
Plato had slaves . . . George Washington had slaves .
. . So, do I feel intrinsically better than these two men?...
Plato having defined man to be a two-legged animal without feathers, Diogenes plucked a cock and brought it into the Academy, and said, "This is Plato's man.
On which account this addition was made...
PLATONIC, adj. Pertaining to the philosophy of Socrates.
Platonic Love is a fool's name for the affection between a disability and a frost....
Platonic friendship: The interval between the introduction and the first kiss.
-- Sophie Irene Loeb...
Platonic Shadow: A nonsexual friendship with a member of the opposite sex.
-- Douglas Coupland, Generation X...
Plato says, "'T is to no purpose for a sober man to knock at the door of the Muse
and Aristotle says "that no excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of folly....
Plato was a bore. -- Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)
Plato was continually saying to Xenocrates, "Sacrifice to the Graces.
-- Diogenes Laertius (c. 200 AD) -- Xenocrates, iii...
PLAUDITS, n. Coins with which the populace pays those who tickle and devour it.
-- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...

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