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Birthplace: | Deme Alopece, Athens |
Manner of Death: | Capital Punishment |
Nationality: | Classical Athens |
Occupations: | Philosopher |
Spouse: | Myrto, Xanthippe |
Total quotes: 8
Socrates
BirthnameBirthplace: Deme Alopece, Athens
Manner of Death: Capital Punishment
Nationality: Classical Athens
Occupations: Philosopher
Spouse: Myrto, Xanthippe
Total quotes: 8
“I have a favor to ask of the judges. When my sons are grown up, I would ask you, O my friends, to punish them; and I would have you trouble them, as I have trouble you, if they seem to care about riches, or anything, more than about virtue; or if they pretend to be something when they are really nothing—then reprove them, as I have reproved you, for not caring about that for which they ought to care, and thinking they are something when they are really nothing. And if you do this both I and my sons will have received just at your hands.”
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