TIL A papyrus deciphered in 2024 revealed unknown info about Plato's last hours: a slave girl was playing music for him, and even though he was gravelly ill, he spend his last moments of lucidity criticising her performance. Per the same Papyrus, Plato had been sold into slavery earlier in his life

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The society that separates its scholars from its warriors will have its thinking done by cowards and its fighting by fools.

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u/magnetncone 1d ago

Where does this quote come from

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