“Even if you do not know about the flight of Anaxagoras, the poisoning of Socrates, or the tortures of Zeno,[4] which happened in foreign lands, you may still know of Canius, Seneca, and Soranus,[5] whose memory is neither distant nor obscure. They were brought down to ruin for nothing but being educated in our ways, for making it evident that they would not comply with the desires of vicious men.
