Top Alcibiades Quotes
Our way would seem quite familiar to the Romans, more by far than the Greek way. Socrates in the Symposium, when Alcibiades challenged him to drink two quarts of wine, could have done so or not as he…
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equality, drinking, decadence, drunkenness, rome, regulations, prohibition, symposium, horace, alcibiades
Men are not born equal in themselves, so I think it beneath a man to postulate that they are. If I thought myself as good as Sokrates I should be a fool; and if, not really believing it, I asked you t…
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philosophy, democracy, socrates, greece, plato, historical fiction, classical, athens, sparta, alcibiades