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Excerpt from Xenophontos Apomnemoneumata: Xenophon's Memorabilia of Socrates, With Notes
Socrates probably devoted himself to the instruction of his fellow citizens when about thirty years of age, B. C. 439. He had from his youth applied himself with eagerness to science and philosophy as taught in the schools of the Sophists, and found them not only unsatisfactory but delusive.' He accordingly de termined to dedicate his life and energies to the subversion of the teachings of those who perplexed good sense, corrupted public morality, and brought odium upon all philosophy, as being merely the art of making the worse appear the better reason.' He did not however pull down without building up in turn. By example and precept he endeavored throughout a long life, to inculcate the principles and practice of piety and virtue. His conduct seemed to prove that the response of the Delphic' oracle, that sopliocles was wise, Euripides, wiser, but that the wisest of all men was Socrates, was no empty assertion, made to gratify the ambition of admiring friends.
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