/lit/ - Literature

>Critias, glancing at the door, invited my attention to some youths who were coming in, [...] Charmides entered [...] almost all young persons appear to be beautiful in my eyes. But at that moment, when I saw him coming in, I confess that I was quite astonished at his beauty and stature [...] Chaerephon called me and said: "What do you think of him, Socrates? Has he not a beautiful face?" "Most beautiful," I said. "But you would think nothing of his face," he replied, "if you could see his naked form: he is absolutely perfect [...] I will call him," [...] He came as he was bidden, and sat down between Critias and me. [...] at that moment all the people in the palaestra crowded about us, and, O rare! I caught a sight of the inwards of his garment, and took the flame. Then I could no longer contain myself. I thought how well Cydias understood the nature of love, when, in speaking of a fair youth, he warns some one "not to bring the fawn in the sight of the lion to be devoured by him," for I felt that I had been overcome by a sort of wild-beast appetite. But I controlled myself.

Why do you idolize the teachings of a homosexual pedophile?

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Tfw no twink bf

Was Plato right about democracy?

>>"SOCRATES: Isn’t it the same, then, with a popular leader? Once he really
takes over a docile mob, he does not restrain himself from shedding a fellow
citizen’s blood. But by leveling the usual false charges and bringing people
into court, he commits murder. And by blotting out a man’s life, his impious tongue and lips taste kindred blood. Then he banishes and kills and
drops hints about the cancellation of debts and the redistribution of land.
And after that, isn’t such a man inevitably fated either to be killed by his
enemies or to be a tyrant, transformed from a man into a wolf?"