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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)
submitted 11 months ago by Preventer79@sh.itjust.works to c/todayilearned@lemmy.ml
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[–] Trex202@lemmy.world 10 points 11 months ago

TIL that this quote exists

[–] matengor@lemmy.ml 7 points 11 months ago

Wow

[–] davel@lemmy.ml 7 points 11 months ago

[–] interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml 7 points 11 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

[–] oantolin@discuss.online 2 points 11 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.