...or the best possible state of your soul? ... Be sure that this is what the god orders me to do For I go around doing nothing but persuading both young...strongly as for the best possible state of your soul, as I say to you: "Wealth does not bring about virtue [arete], but virtue brings about wealth and all...

...orders me to do, and I think there is no greater blessing for the city than my service to the god. For I go around doing nothing but persuading both young and old among you not to care for b your body or your wealth in preference to or as strongly as for the best possible state of your soul,...

...preference. The Apology is particularly illuminating regarding the underlying problem. Socrates says, "For I go around doing nothing but persuading both young...strongly as for the best possible state of your soul" (30a7-b2; cf. 29e7d3). This text and others are interesting because they are so obviously question-begging....

...to the god. For I go around doing nothing but persuading [that is, offering reasoned arguments to] both young and old among you not to care for your...strongly as for the best possible state of your soul, as I say to you: "Wealth does not bting about excellence, but [on the contrary] excellence makes wealth...

...orders me to do, and I think there is no greater blessing for the city than my service to the god. For I go around doing nothing but persuading both young...among you not to care for your body or your wealth in preferЬ ence to or as strongly as for the best possible state of your soul, as I say to you: "Wealth...

...orders me to do, and I think there is no greater blessing for the city than my service to the god. For I go around doing nothing but persuading both young...wealth in preference to or as strongly as for the best b possible state of your soul, as I say to you: "Wealth does not bring about excellence, but excellence...

...only refrains from harming others, he (c) strives to confer on them the greatest of benefits: "for I go around doing nothing but persuading both young...strongly as for the best possible state of your soul" (Apology, 30a-b). This he does at great personal sacrifice: "Because of this occupation, I do not have...

...not care for nor give thought to wisdom or truth, or the best possible state of your soul? (29e) For I go around doing nothing but persuading both young...strongly as for the best possible state of your soul. (30b) Socrates' message to the Athenians has an uncanny timeliness. While I am not so sure we would...

...while you do not care for nor give thought to wisdom or truth, or the best possible state of your soul? I go around doing nothing but persuading both young...as strongly as for the best possible state of your soul.111 Montaigne, for his part, seemed to have been quite attentive to Socrates' moral advice, persuaded,...

...the city. Armed with his awareness of human ignorance, he stirs up his fellow citizens like a gadfly, "doing nothing but persuading both young and old among...strongly as for the best possible state of your soul" (Ap. 30a). Now, this last statement is provocative, because it sounds like the sort of thing a genuine...