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SteveEisenberg · 03-02-2013, 10:44 AM

Re #142, Plato didn't write that, nor, as far as I can tell, did any other ancient.

See:

http://quotationsbook.com/quote/44998/

and

http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Youth_nowadays

The link above says the quote is a "paraphrase of a quote from Aristophanes' Clouds." However, when I follow the link to the passage from Aristophanes, well, each can judge for themselves, but I think Aristophanes was joking, and his meaning is arguably rather different.

03-02-2013, 10:44 AM	#144
SteveEisenberg Grand Sorcerer Posts: 7,438 Karma: 43514536 Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: near Philadelphia USA Device: Kindle Kids Edition, Fire HD 10 (11th generation)	Re #142, Plato didn't write that, nor, as far as I can tell, did any other ancient. See: http://quotationsbook.com/quote/44998/ and http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Youth_nowadays The link above says the quote is a "paraphrase of a quote from Aristophanes' Clouds." However, when I follow the link to the passage from Aristophanes, well, each can judge for themselves, but I think Aristophanes was joking, and his meaning is arguably rather different.