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"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."

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The Trial and Death of Socrates (Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Phaedo)

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"therefore, if you will take my advice, you will spare me. But you, perhaps, being irritated like drowsy persons who are roused from sleep, will strike me, and, yielding to Anytus, will unthinkingly condemn me to death; and then you will pass the rest of your life in sleep, unless the deity, caring for you, should send some one else to you."

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Man, I love Socrates.

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

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"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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