An idea from Lives of the Eminent Philosophers

Charged with rejecting the city’s gods and corrupting the young, Socrates turned down a defense speech a skilled speaker wrote for him. It suited him, he said, about as well as fancy clothes and shoes would. He was found guilty and drank the hemlock.

From Lives of the Eminent Philosophers by Diogenes Laertius

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