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Nov
22

Past Glories

Socrates with Apollo in the background


“Philosophy, moreover, which has helped to discover and establish all these institutions, which has educated us for public affairs and made us gentle towards each other, which has distinguished between the misfortunes that are due to ignorance and those which spring from necessity, and taught us to guard against the former and to bear the latter nobly—philosophy, I say, was given to the world by our city.” - Isocrates on the city of Athens in Panegyricus.