
Plato 427BCE  347BCE
  
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| The philosopher Plato so disliked his contemporary Democritus that he 
      tried to get all his works destroyed. The result is that today, 2400 years 
      later, we have a complete collection of Platos works but only fragments 
      of Democritus have survived.
 
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