There is no greater evil one can suffer than to hate reasonable discourse.
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SocratesPlato, Phaedo 89d
About Socrates
Athenian philosopher known to us mainly through the dialogues of Plato. (c. 470-399 BC)
More from Socrates
- The unexamined life is not worth living for men.Plato, Apology 38a, tr. G. M. A. Grube
- It would be better for me that multitudes of men should disagree with me rather than that I, being one, should be out of harmony with myself.Plato, Gorgias 482c
- Anyone who holds a true opinion without understanding is like a blind man on the right road.Plato, Republic 506c
- How many things I have no need of!Quoted in Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers, II
- Those who want fewest things are nearest to the Gods.Quoted in Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers, II
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- If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner.Nelson Mandela
- To suppress free speech is a double wrong. It violates the rights of the hearer as well as those of the speaker.Frederick Douglass
- Fight for the things that you care about, but do it in a way that will lead others to join you.Ruth Bader Ginsburg
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