When my sons are grown up, I would ask you, my friends, to punish them; and I would have you to trouble them, as I have troubled 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 that they are something when they are really nothing.
And if you do this, I and my sons will have received justice at your hands.
—Plato, Apology 41e–42a
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