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Boy, Socrates (and Plato) really didn't like artists.

"And the soul is like the eye: when resting upon that on which truth and being shine, the soul percieves and is radiant with intelligence; but when turned towards the twilight of becoming and perishing, then she has opinion only, and goes blinking about, and is first of one opinion and theb of another, and seems to have no intelligence?"

What a way to insult someone.

Apparently giving your money to women and/or slaves is bad.

It wouldn't be ancient Greece if we weren't treating women like disposable objects.

Justice stems from harmony, disharmony stems from people in disagreement with each other. Most disagreements stem from people fighting over stuff labeled "mine" or "not mine" and "his" and "not his".
Therefore, the most just state has no private property.
(The International starts playing in the background)

"for my next trick, I shall deconstruct gender roles!"
Socrates, probably.

Essentialising and classifying rulers, soldiers and commoners by their character, ordered by metals: gold, silver and iron/bronze.
There is a possibility that people of one rank have a child of another, though no social ladder.

I... I disagree.

"And let us equally refuse to believe, or allow to be repeated, the tale of Theseus son of Poseidon, and Peirithous son of Zeus, going forth as they did to perpetrate a horrid rape"

Based.

Dogs are true philosophers, because they distinguish a friend and a foe by the sole criterion of knowing and not knowing.

According to Plato.