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“No one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.”

— Socrates, Plato, Apology (29a)

About Socrates

470 BC – 399 BC

Classical Athenian philosopher and a founder of Western philosophy. He wrote nothing himself; his ideas survive mainly through the dialogues of his student Plato.

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