... elements and saw firsthand both the good and evil man was capab! le of. Toward the end of his military service while at a camp in-between battles, he awoke early one morning and stood on top of a nearby hill, in the mud, motionless for the entire day. Nobody attempted to disturb his ... detailed, but not consistently labeled as being Socrates's views or his own. The very fact that this gifted man chose not to record his ideas is a testament to his understanding of man to a degree beyond words. Plato inquired about his lack of records and his reply was that knowledge was a living, inter...

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