Sublime

And so he proposes death as the penalty.

Socrates declining Perdiccas’s invitation “so as to avoid dying a thousand deaths” (by accepting a favor he couldn’t pay back).

Wisdom in Greek was sophia, as in our word “philosophy,” love of wisdom.

in a word, of sacrifice. It is the wise and worthy idea of not taking our advantage to the full; of putting something in the other balance to ballast our dubious pride, of paying tithes to nature for our land. This deep truth of the danger of insolence, or being too big for our boots, runs through all the great Greek tragedies and makes them great.

He, O men, is the wisest, who, like Socrates, knows that his wisdom is in truth worth nothing.

"Atrides, speak not falsely: well thou know'st The truth, that we our fathers far surpass.

Why are you angry with your slave, with your master, with your patron, with your client? Wait a little. Behold, death comes, which will make you equals. Seneca, On Anger 3.43.1