To call someone wise, seems to me too much, and proper only for a god. To call him wisdom’s lover — a philosopher — or something similar would fit him better and be more seemly.
Plato, Phaedrus
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To call someone wise, seems to me too much, and proper only for a god. To call him wisdom’s lover — a philosopher — or something similar would fit him better and be more seemly.