An idea from Lives of the Eminent Philosophers

Plato defined a human being as a two-footed animal without feathers. Diogenes plucked a chicken, carried it into the school, and said, “This is Plato’s man.”

From Lives of the Eminent Philosophers by Diogenes Laertius

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