Apology by Plato ~ Full Audiobook [philosophy]
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Maintenance in the Praetenium Is the Just Return
I was really too honest a man to be a politician and live, I did not go where I could do no good to you or to myself. What would be a reward suitable to a poor man who is your benefactor that he may instruct you? There can be no reward so fitting as maintenance in the praetenium,. oh men of Athens, a reward which he deserves far more than the same. For I am in want, and he has enough, and he only gives you the appearance of happiness. When I do not know whether death is a good or an evil, why should I propose a penalty which would certainly be an evil?
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