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WT Sharpe · 03-19-2011, 08:10 AM

.....O my friend, why do you who are a citizen of the great and mighty and wise city of Athens, care so much about laying up the greatest amount of money and honor and reputation, and so little about wisdom and truth and the greatest improvement of the soul, which you never regard or heed at all? Are you not ashamed of this?
..........— Socrates (circa 469 BCE – circa 399 BCE), Athenian philosopher. Quoted in Plato's Apology (tr. Benjamin Jowett).

03-19-2011, 08:10 AM	#1385
WT Sharpe Bah, humbug! Posts: 39,072 Karma: 157049943 Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: Chesapeake, VA, USA Device: Kindle Oasis, iPad Pro, & a Samsung Galaxy S9.	.....O my friend, why do you who are a citizen of the great and mighty and wise city of Athens, care so much about laying up the greatest amount of money and honor and reputation, and so little about wisdom and truth and the greatest improvement of the soul, which you never regard or heed at all? Are you not ashamed of this? ..........— Socrates (circa 469 BCE – circa 399 BCE), Athenian philosopher. Quoted in Plato's *Apology* (tr. Benjamin Jowett).