Diogenes Laërtius - Plato Quotes

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Socrates having heard Plato read the Lysis, said, "O Hercules! what a number of lies the young man has told about me." For he had set down a great many things as sayings of Socrates which he never said.

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Plato affirmed that the soul was immortal and clothed in many bodies successively.

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He used to teach that God is incorporeal, as Plato also asserted, and that his providence extends over all the heavenly bodies.

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Plato was continually saying to Xenocrates, "Sacrifice to the Graces."

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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 to the definition,—"With broad flat nails."

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