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this is the greatest good to man, to discourse daily on virtue, and other things which you have heard me discussing, examining both myself and others,

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But this is not difficult, O Athenians! to escape death; but it is much more difficult to avoid depravity, for it runs swifter than death. And now I, ...more

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virtue does not spring from riches, but riches and all other human blessings, both private and public, from virtue.