"It is not enough that Socrates died a more noble death, and disputed more
skilfully with the sophists, and passed the night in the cold with more
endurance, and that when he was bid to arrest Leon of Salamis, he considered
it more noble to refuse, and that he walked in a swaggering way
in the streets- though as to this fact one may have great doubts if it was true. But we ought to inquire, what kind of a soul it was
that Socrates possessed, and if he was able to be content with
being just towards men and pious towards the gods, neither idly
vexed on account of men's villainy, nor yet making himself a
slave to any man's ignorance, nor receiving as strange anything
that fell to his share out of the universal, nor enduring it as
intolerable, nor allowing his understanding to sympathize with the affects
of the miserable flesh." (Meditations Book Seven)
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