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Such, Echecrates, was the end of our comrade, who was, we may fairly say, of all those whom we knew in our time, the bravest and also the wisest and most upright man.

Plato

Plato (c. 428–348 B.C.), Greek philosopher. Phaedo 118a15-17, Collected Dialogues of Plato, trans. by Hugh Tredennick, eds. Edith Hamilton and Huntington Cairns, Princeton University Press (1963).

The end of the account of Socrates' last day on earth.

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