Status Updates From The Trial and Death of Socr...

Man, I love Socrates.

I loved this when I read it in college, and I'm loving it now.

"I came to some such conclusion as this: those who bore the highest reputation appeared to me to be most deficient, [...], and others who were considered inferior more nearly approaching to the possession of understanding."

"But of the many falsehoods which they uttered I wondered at one of them especially, that in which they said that you ought to be on your guard lest you should be deceived by me, as being eloquent in speech. For that they are not ashamed of being forthwith convicted by me in fact, when I shall show that I am not by any means eloquent, this seemed to me the most shameless thing in them
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