Both Socrates and Jesus were outstanding teachers; both of them urged and practiced great simplicity of life; both were regarded as traitors to the religion of their community; neither of them wrote anything; both of them were executed; and both have become the subject of traditions that are difficult or impossible to harmonize.
ATTRIBUTION:
Jaroslav Pelikan (b. 1932), U.S. theologian, educator. Jesus Through the Centuries, ch. 15, Yale University Press (1985).
