Socrates: ‘Don't you think that self-indulgence debars people from wisdom, which is the greatest good, and drives them into the opposite state? Don't you think that, by dragging them off in pursuit of pleasure, it prevents them from studying and apprehending their real interests; and that it often confuses their perception of good and bad and makes them choose the worse instead of the better?'

Euthydemus: 'That does happen.'

Memoirs of Socrates
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Quote from the Penguin introduction to “Memoirs of Socrates” by Xenophon.

Makes you wonder about our times. Are we tolerating Socrates or kindly suggesting that he drink Hemlock?
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