Socrates — "For I do believe that I have been sent by God to the city as a gadfly to a great…"

For I do believe that I have been sent by God to the city as a gadfly to a great and noble horse which is rather sluggish because of its size and needs to be stirred up by a gadfly.
Socrates — Socrates Ancient · Father of Western philosophy

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Plato's Apology, describing his role in Athens

Date: c. 399 BCE

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