An idea from The Trial and Death of Socrates

Why not leave Athens and keep quiet? Because talking every day about how to live is the greatest good a person has, and “the unexamined life is not worth living”. He knew the jury would find that the hardest part to believe.

From The Trial and Death of Socrates by Plato

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