... with his concepts. What one doesn't understand, they dismissed as nonsense. There were two fundamental problems impeding Socrates and his fellow citizens from agreement. The first was that the ideas and discoveries he made were not simple enough to learn overnight. The only thing more underdeveloped than the public's understanding was their attention span. Socrates's truths took him nearly thirty years to comprehen ... came when he was seventy years old. In 400 B.C., this was exceptionally old. It is worth noting that the man was clearly close to his death, and while not deathly ill, he h...

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