There's a good book called "What Confucius Really Said" that takes the Analects of Confucius and just puts it in a modern idiom. I think in general, the Analect

There's a good book called "What Confucius Really Said" that takes the Analects of Confucius and just puts it in a modern idiom. I think in general, the Analects comes off as more Tweet-like than anything in Plato. Plato is more of a playwright who characters go on unrealistically long digressions about whatever idea it is the author was interested in.