"Oh dear Pan and all the other Gods of this place, grant that I may be beautiful inside."
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Plato, Socrates’ prayer in Phaedrus, 279
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Plato (Πλάτων Plátōn; c. 427 BC – c. 347 BC) was a Greek philosopher from Athens during the Classical period in Ancient Greece, founder of the Platonist school of thought and the Academy (Akademia), the first institution of higher learning in the Western world.
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