It is not living that matters, but living rightly.
Philosophers
Socrates
Fifth-century BC Athenian philosopher who wrote nothing yet transformed Western thought. Through questioning in the agora he shifted philosophy from cosmology to ethics, making the examined life its central pursuit.
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