I only wish that wisdom were such a thing as flowed from the fuller to the emptier man, as water does from a full cup to an empty one when we a thread between them.

Father of Western philosophy

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As recounted by Plato in Symposium

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c. 385–370 BCE

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Humorous

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https://classics.mit.edu/Plato/symposium.html

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