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“Plato having defined man to be a two-legged animal without feathers, Diogenes plucked a cock and brought it into the Academy, and said, "This is Plato's man." On which account this addition was made to the definition,--"With broad flat nails."”
Provenance
- Source:
- Diogenes. vi.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 816abb6f6484b5fc65181a6f96442fa3346deab4f574d142c834ef6370f81cd9
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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