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Quotation from Gorgias by Plato

“for philosophy, Socrates, if pursued in moderation and at the proper age, is an elegant accomplishment, but too much philosophy is the ruin of human life”

Plato (spoken by Callicles)

Gorgias, 484c, trans. Benjamin Jowett (1892)

Callicles warns Socrates, half in friendship, that philosophy is fit for youths and ridiculous in grown men.

Citation: "for philosophy, Socrates, if pursued in moderation and at the proper age, is an elegant accomplishment, but too much philosophy is the ruin of human life" — Plato, Gorgias, 484c, trans. Benjamin Jowett (1892). (id plato-gorgias-q6)

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