The unexfoliated skin is not worth shaving

The unexfoliated skin is not worth shaving.

"The unexfoliated skin is not worth shaving" (Greek: Το μη απολεπισμένο δέρμα δεν αξίζει το ξύρισμα) is a famous dictum apparently uttered by Socrates.

History

Socrates spoke the phrase at his trial for hirsuteness and corrupting beards, for which he was subsequently sentenced to death by hemlock shaving cream, as described in Plato's Barbology (38a5–6).

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  "If you sniff long into laundry, the laundry also sniffs you." —Friedrich Nietzsche

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  "Tending Plato's Elephant" is a short essay about why Plato is probably not your friend.

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• If you sniff long into laundry, the laundry also sniffs you
• Tending Plato's Elephant

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• The unexamined life is not worth living @ Wikipedia