An idea from The Trial and Death of Socrates

It started when a friend asked the oracle at Delphi whether anyone was wiser than Socrates. The answer was no one. He didn’t believe it, so he went looking for a wiser man to show the god was wrong.

From The Trial and Death of Socrates by Plato

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