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Socrates
(470-399 BC)
"The unexamined life is not worth living."

Socrates spent his days in the marketplace of Athens asking people questions like “What is courage?” and then asking more questions about their answers. It was a clever way to make people think, and it is still called the Socratic method.

He never wrote anything down. We know about him mostly because his student Plato wrote about him. His questions made some powerful people angry, and in 399 BC he was put on trial and sentenced to death.

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