Poetry it is often said and loudly so is life's true mirror. But a monkey looking into a work of literature looks in vain for Socrates.

And History will smile to think that this is the species for which Socrates and Jesus Christ died.

The difference between Socrates and Jesus? The great conscious and the immeasurably great unconscious.

Wherever magistrates were appointed from among those who complied with the injunctions of the laws Socrates considered the government to be an aristocracy.

And what Socrates is the food of the soul? Surely I said knowledge is the food of the soul.

A library to modify the famous metaphor of Socrates should be the delivery room for the birth of ideas - a place where history comes to life.

I will admit like Socrates and Aristotle and Plato and some other philosophers that there are instances where the death penalty would seem appropriate.