And now I depart, condemned by you to death; but they condemned by truth, as guilty of iniquity and injustice: and I abide my sentence, and so do they. These things, perhaps, ought so to be, and I think that they are for the best.
— Socrates Ancient

Father of Western philosophy

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Plato's Apology, his final words to the jury

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c. 399 BCE

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