Plato Quotes
Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death?
Plato. Phaedo. Translated by Benjamin Jowett, Oxford University Press, 1892, p. 214.
Conkling the boss of New York politics had designs on the Presidency. However, when the President was assassinated, the murderer claimed to have acted in favor of the Conkling political views as Vice President Chester Arthur was a Conkling political soldier. Although Conkling had nothing to do with the assassination, he left politics and returned to private law practice. He also refused an appointment to the Supreme Court.
Plato (/ˈpleɪtoʊ/ PLAY-toe; Greek: Πλάτων Plátōn, pronounced [plá.tɔːn] in Classical Attic; 428/427 or 424/423 – 348/347 BC) was an Athenian philosopher during the Classical period in Ancient Greece, founder of the Platonist school of thought and the Academy, the first institution of higher learning in the Western world.