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"....I am inclined to think that these muscles and bones of mine would have gone off long ago to Megara or Boeotia— by the dog they would, if they had been moved only by their own idea of what was best.(tr Jowett)"

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Plato was an ancient Greek philosopher and the founder of the Academy in Athens. He was a student of Socrates and the teacher of Aristotle, and his dialogues are foundational texts in Western philosophy.

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