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Socrates
When my sons are grown up, I would ask you, O my friends, to punish them; and I would have you trouble them, as I have troubled you, if they seem to care about riches, or anything, more than about virtue.
—Apology
Socrates
Plato
 
427?–347 B.C., Greek philosopher. Plato’s teachings have been among the most influential in the history of Western civilization.—continue at Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. Copyright © 2002 Columbia University Press. (See also: Introductory Note from the Harvard Classics.)
 
Pronunciation:  pl´t from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. Copyright © 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
 
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The Apology, Phædo and Crito
Three dialogues that epitomize the Socratic question-and-answer style turned philosophy. From the Harvard Classics, Vol. II, Part 1.
 
Plato, 44484 to 44607
Entries from the Columbia World of Quotations.
 
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