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    Charmides
    Charmides
    Charmides
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    Charmides

    Written by Plato

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    Charmides discusses the virtue of temperance. (Summary by Geoffrey Edwards)

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    PublisherLibriVox
    Release dateAug 25, 2014
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    Plato

    Plato (428−348 BCE) was a philosopher and mathematician in ancient Greece. A student of Socrates and a teacher of Aristotle, his Academy was one of the first institutions of higher learning in the Western world. He is widely regarded as the father of modern philosophy. 

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