Is it not, then, better to be ridiculous and friendly than clever and hostile?
It is the greatest good for an individual to discuss virtue (aka areté) every day...for the unexamined life is not worth living.
This is...self-knowled ge-for a man to know what he knows, and what he does not know.
He is a man of courage who does not run away, but remains at his post and fights against the enemy.
A disorderly mob is no more an army than a heap of building materials is a house
If you will take my advice you will think little of Socrates, and a great deal more of truth.