Socrates

Philosophy is all very fine when one is in easy circumstances, but you have nothing. One has to live. You will philosophize later.

I am a simple man destitute of sciences and full of weakness like the rest. It's much if you support me.

Between ourselves, Socrates is right. But he's wrong to be right so publicly. I don't make more of the case of Ceres or Neptune than he does. But he ought not to say before the whole Areopagus what should only be whispered in the ear. Where, after all, is the evil in poisoning a philosopher, especially when he's old and ugly?

It's the triumph of superior reason to live with folks who don't have any.