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TIL the famous Socrates quote about children being disrespectful and having bad manners was actually a fabrication written by a Canadian college student in 1907 (quoteinvestigator.com)
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[–] Trex202@lemmy.world 10 points 6 months ago

TIL that this quote exists

[–] interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml 8 points 6 months ago

Well, let's not tell anyone because this shuts the old yapper's clap trap it's good enough for me. Anyway, socrates didn't say anything because he was largely a made up composite character, Socrates is basically Aristotle's Fan Fic

[–] matengor@lemmy.ml 7 points 6 months ago

Wow

[–] davel@lemmy.ml 7 points 6 months ago

[–] oantolin@discuss.online 1 points 6 months ago

Technically that doesn't prove Socrates never said it, he might've, though it would be one hell of a coincidence. It amuses me to think we'll never know.