Socrates

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Socrates

Profession: an honest stone cutter, mad man, and teacher of wisdom.

Hobbies: Asking impossible questions in a language that most normal Athenians do not understand, and therefore, in their ignorance, accusing the questioner of heresy .

Greetings, my name is Socrates. I am the great philosopher of classical Athens. I spent most of my life in conversations with Athenian citizens, seeking true knowledge and exposing the errors of those who claimed to have wisdom . . . Well, to bad that I was not wise enough to keep my own mouth shut . . . How come? Because my persistent questioning got me accused of heresy, and I was sentenced to death by poisoning. That is why I am so ugly: not because of my conversations, not because of my lack of wisdom, but mostly because I am dead . . . To be honest -- and I must be honest if I am to abide by my own principles and ethics -- I was ugly even before I died.

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