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Quotation from Charmides, Lysis and Laches by Plato
“how ridiculous that you two boys, and I, an old boy, who would fain be one of you, should imagine ourselves to be friends”
Charmides, Lysis and Laches, Lysis (Stephanus 223b), trans. Benjamin Jowett (1892)
Socrates' parting words after the drunken tutors break up the gathering, confessing that the three of them still cannot say what a friend is.
Citation: "how ridiculous that you two boys, and I, an old boy, who would fain be one of you, should imagine ourselves to be friends" — Plato, Charmides, Lysis and Laches, Lysis (Stephanus 223b), trans. Benjamin Jowett (1892). (id plato-charmides-lysis-laches-q8)
