Socrates searches for someone smarter than himself in order to understand the oracles statement tha he is the wisest man. Through cross-examination he discovers that ppl who think they know really do not.
He is accused of corrupting the young and not believing in the gods.
He defends himself on the first accusation that he was only demonstrating other ppl's ignorance and the second that he does indeed believe in the gods, since he believes in spirits.
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But I observed that even the good artisans fell into the same error as the poets - namely, that because they were expert workmen in their own crafts, they thought that they also knew all sorts of high matters, and this defect in them overshadowed their wisdon; and therefore, I asked myself on behalf of the oracle whether I would prefer to be as I was, neither having their knowledge nor their ignorance, or to be like them in both; and I answered to myself and to the oracle that I was better off as I was.
For I do nothing but go about persuading you all, old and young alike, not to take thought for your person or your property, but first and foremost to take care of your soul, that it be as good as possible, saying "Virtue is not given by money, but from virtue comes money and every other human good, public as well as private."
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For if a person were to select the night in which his sleep was undisturbed even by dreams, and were to compare with this the other days and nights of his life, and then were to tell us how many days and nights he had passed in the course of his life better and more pleasantly than this one, I think that any man, I will not say just a private man, but even the great king himself will not find many such days or nights when compared with the others. Now if death is like that, then I say that to die is a gain..
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