Socrates

born c. 470 bce, Athens — died 399 bce, Athens.
Socates never wrote anything.
at age 70, he was brought to trial on a charge of impiety and sentenced to death by poisoning.
Socrates was a widely recognized and controversial figure in his native Athens, so much so that he was frequently mocked in the plays of comic dramatists.

“The unexamined life is not worth living.”

“Be as you wish to seem”