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Friday, September 27, 2019

Sayings of Socrates 21


I do nothing but go about persuading you all, old and young alike, not to take thought for your persons or your properties, but chiefly to care about the greatest improvement of the soul.

 I tell you that virtue is not given by money, but that from virtue comes money and every other good of man, public as well as private. 

This is my teaching, and if this is the doctrine that corrupts the youth, I am a mischievous person. 

—Plato, Apology 30a–b

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