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Dude, he is quoting.

https://quoteinvestigator.com/2010/05/01/misbehaving-childre...

And I'm quoting (apocryphal) Socrates :-)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_know_that_I_know_nothing

I would call that creative quoting.

And we can't have creativity being shown here, no sir!

and here I was thinking you were quoting RR Martin's Ygritte.

It's a quote from a Greek dude nearly 2300 years ago.

It's not. It's a made-up quotation from 100+ years ago, attributed to the Greek dude.

That said, the Greek dude had made some very astute observations of his own, that hold very well today. So it's not like "23 centuries" ago necessarily means an idea is stale or anything.

It's a quote from Socrates.

It has been attributes to Plato, but check my link in the sibling comment.