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Quotation from Parmenides by Plato
“the motive, however, of writing, was not the ambition of an elder man, but the pugnacity of a young one”
Parmenides, Stephanus 128d-e, trans. Benjamin Jowett (1892)
Zeno explains that his book against plurality was a youthful counterattack on Parmenides' critics, published without his consent.
Citation: "the motive, however, of writing, was not the ambition of an elder man, but the pugnacity of a young one" — Plato, Parmenides, Stephanus 128d-e, trans. Benjamin Jowett (1892). (id plato-parmenides-q1)
