Socrates insisted that it was better to suffer wrong than inflict it, and his last days proved it. It’s why Cicero dubbed Socrates “the wisest and most upright of men” and why centuries later, Mahatma Gandhi took him as a personal role model and called him “a soldier for Truth.” Socrates’s quest to lead his fellow citizens to a higher vision of themselves and their society, while living that example himself, even when it cost him his life, raised him to the level of the heroic, where he has stayed more or less ever since.
