Now do you really imagine that I could have survived all these years, I had
led a public life, supposing that like a good man I had always supported the
right and had made justice, as I ought, the first thing? No, indeed, men of
Athens, neither I nor any other. But I have been always the same in all my
actions, public as well as private, and never have I yielded any base
compliance to those who are slanderously termed my disciples or to any other.
For the truth is that I have no regular disciples: but if anyone likes to come
and hear me while I am pursuing my mission, whether he be young or old, he may
freely come. Nor do I converse with those who pay only, and not with those who
do not pay; but anyone, whether he be rich or poor, may ask and answer me and
listen to my words; and whether he turns out to be a bad man or a good one,
that cannot be justly laid to my charge, as I never taught him anything. And
if anyone says that he has ever learned or heard anything from me in private
which all the world has not heard, I should like you to know that he is
speaking an untruth.
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