Socrates’ talk makes him cry, he says, and ashamed of chasing the crowd’s approval. No one else has ever made him feel shame. So he runs from Socrates and has sometimes wished him dead, knowing he would grieve.
From The Symposium by Plato
Socrates’ talk makes him cry, he says, and ashamed of chasing the crowd’s approval. No one else has ever made him feel shame. So he runs from Socrates and has sometimes wished him dead, knowing he would grieve.
From The Symposium by Plato
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