Nothing that other people can do to you can harm you enough to cancel out the benefit you bestow on yourself by acting rightly. It follows that bad p… - Socrates

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Nothing that other people can do to you can harm you enough to cancel out the benefit you bestow on yourself by acting rightly. It follows that bad people ultimately harm only themselves: nothing can harm a good man either in life or after death

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Socrates (Σωκράτης; c. 470 BC – 399 BC) was a classical Greek (Athenian) philosopher credited as one of the founders of Western philosophy. Through his portrayal in Plato's dialogues, Socrates has become renowned for his contribution to the field of ethics, and it is this Platonic Socrates who lends his name to the concepts of Socratic irony and the Socratic method, or elenchus. The latter remains a commonly used tool in a wide range of discussions, and is a type of pedagogy in which a series of questions is asked not only to draw individual answers, but also to encourage fundamental insight into the issue at hand.

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Native Name: Σωκράτης
Alternative Names: Sokrates Sokratis
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Pues bien, cuando alguien se da a la
música y deja que le inunde el alma derramando por sus oídos, como por un canal, aquellas
dulces, suaves y lastimeras armonías de que
hablábamos hace poco y pasa su vida entera
entre gorjeos y goces musicales, esta persona
comienza por templar, como el fuego al hierro,
la fogosidad que pueda albergar su espíritu y
hacerla útil de dura e inservible. Pero si persiste
y no cesa de entregarse a su hechizo, entonces
ya no hará otra cosa que liquidar y ablandar
ésta su fogosidad hasta que, derretida ya por
completo, cortados, por así decirlo, los tendones del alma, la persona se transforma en un
«feble guerrero»

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