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I take it, Socrates' point is that
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his own individual moral integrity
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stands as a kind of litmus test,
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you might say, for whether to engage
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or disengage from political life.
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"I was the sort of man," he tells the jury,
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"I was the sort of man
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who never conceded anything to anyone
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contrary to what is just,"
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no doubt also reminding them of his,again
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his refusal to bow to the Thirty Tyrants
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in the case of Leon of Salamis.