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@platonicfrendswithsocrates

philosopher. also i don’t know shit haha
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how dull for you to live your life without any hills to die on, you, on your vast flat barren plains of compromise, acceptance, and accommodation, while I reign supreme over the lush, rolling highlands of stupid shit I have irrationally chosen to stake my entire identity on

in my modern retelling of Plato’s Symosium, we bump into Socrates after hes gotten buccal fat removal

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i finished this page. onwards to the next :D ___________

SOCRATES: Perhaps, at any rate, I am right in saying that all men greatly need pains and care, and you and I above all men.

ALCIBIADES: You are not far wrong about me.

SOCRATES: And certainly not about myself.

ALCIBIADES: But what can we do?

SOCRATES: There must be no hesitation or cowardice, my friend.

ALCIBIADES: That would not become us, Socrates.

SOCRATES: No, indeed, and we ought to take counsel together: for do we not wish to be as good as possible?

ALCIBIADES: We do.

SOCRATES: In what sort of virtue?

ALCIBIADES: Plainly, in the virtue of good men.

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"wE nEed to bE aS gOOd as pOsSible iN tHE viRtUe oF gOod meN"

-_- nicely said -_-

Obsessed with Socrates‘ nicknames for Alcibiades.

(Source: the dialogues of Plato translated by David Horan)

[seven screenshots from Alcibiades I by Plato. Highlighted are Socrates’ quotes “best of men”, “blessed man”, “dear Alcibiades”, “excellent Alcibiades”, “high-born Alcibiades, “my dear Alcibiades” and “dear Alcibiades?”]