The children now love luxury. They have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise.


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SOCRATES
Are you not ashamed of caring so much for the making of money and for fame and prestige, when you ne...
SOCRATES
To fear death, my friends, is only to think ourselves wise, without being wise: for it is to think t...
SOCRATES