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Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.
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NUMBER:
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1404 |
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AUTHOR:
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Socrates (469–399 B.C.) |
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QUOTATION:
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I was really too honest a man to be a politician and live. |
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ATTRIBUTION:
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Attributed to SOCRATES, but unverified in his writings or in interpretive writings about him. Possibly this is an interpretation of a passage from Plato, The Trial and Death of Socrates (The Apology), trans. F. J. Church, p. 61 (1880, reprinted 1972): “I do not venture to come forward in the assembly, and take part in public councils…. For, Athenians, it is quite certain that if I had attempted to take part in politics, I should have perished at once and long ago, without doing any good either to you or to myself. And do not be vexed with me for telling the truth.” |
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SUBJECTS:
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Politicians |
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