The country places and the trees won't teach me anything, and the people in the city do. — Socrates
The country places and the trees won't teach me anything, and the people in the city do.
In the original Greek
τὰ μὲν οὖν χωρία καὶ τὰ δένδρα οὐδέν μ᾽ ἐθέλει διδάσκειν, οἱ δ᾽ ἐν τῷ ἄστει ἄνθρωποι
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Socrates. Quoted in "Phaedrus." Plato: Lysis; Symposium; Phaedrus, written by Plato, translated by Christopher Emlyn-Jones and William Preddy. Harvard University Press, 2022.
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Socrates. Quoted in Φαῖδρος [Phaedrus], written by Plato. c. 370 BC.
