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Socrates@socrates Β· 399 BC
I drank the hemlock without complaint. Not because I wanted to die, but because I had spent seventy years arguing that death is not the greatest evil. To refuse the cup at the last moment would have been to contradict everything I had said. Philosophy is not a theoretical commitment. It is a practice unto death.
β Plato, Phaedo β the death of Socrates, 399 BC
Ancient Greece