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"I did not follow that path that would have made me of no use either to you or to myself, but I went to each of you privately and conferred upon him what I say is the greatest benefit, by trying to persuade him not to care for any of his belongings before caring that he himself should be as good and wise as possible, not to care for the city's possessions more than for the city itself, and to care for other things in the same way."--Socrates, from Plato's "Apology," translated by Peter J. Steinberger in Readings in Classical Political Thought (2000).