You mean Plato says he said that?
We have no original writings from Socrates - and that monologue is either his own reason, or the excuse of his biographers.
Gosh aren't we all so highbrow! I'm off to write some haiku about Nietzsche
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Invisible Wizard - 10th Level Nerf-herder, Sun 30 Jun 2019, 7:54,
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Thanks for pointing that out. And since we're being patronisingly pedantic as well as highbrow, thias morning, that was part of a dialogue, not a monologue. He was quite famous for them, don'tchaknow.
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FridgeBadger, Sun 30 Jun 2019, 10:39,
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I wrote "monologue" because of the absence
- of any other voices in your extract. Of course it comes from a dialogue, but your quoted part is monological.
QED
/poking and pointing with his pipe
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Invisible Wizard - 10th Level Nerf-herder, Sun 30 Jun 2019, 11:46,
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Well said Tarquin
That should put the oik in his place, what?
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Boot I want to know what you meant, Sun 30 Jun 2019, 12:13,
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Quite so, Athelstan.
Now be a good chap and pass me another pauper, my glans is in need of a vigorous buffing.
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Invisible Wizard - 10th Level Nerf-herder, Sun 30 Jun 2019, 14:53,
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