I would have you know that, if you kill such a one as I am, you will injure yourselves more than you will injure me. Meletus and Anytus will not injure me: they cannot; for it is not in the nature of things that a bad man should injure a better than himself.
— Socrates Ancient

Father of Western philosophy

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Plato's Apology, addressing his accusers

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c. 399 BCE

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Shocking

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