One is that to a man who preserves his integrity no real, long-term harm can ever come. The uncertainties of this world are such that it can happen to anybody that he is stripped of all his possessions and thrown into prison unjustly, or crippled by accident or disease; but these are chance happenings in a fleeting existence that is going to end soon anyway. Provided your soul remains untouched, your misfortunes will be comparatively trivial. Real personal catastrophe consists in corruption of the soul. That is why it does a person far, far less harm to suffer injustice than to commit it. We should pity the perpetrator of injustice, not the victim of injustice.
This belief of Socrates made him a hero to the Stoics, who hundreds of years later turned him into a sort of secular patron saint. Another basic belief of Socrates was that if you really do in the fullest sense understand that it is wrong to do something, then you do not do it. Conversely, if you do it, this shows that you have not properly grasped, deep down, that it is wrong. This view has the consequence that virtue becomes a matter of knowledge. This conviction on Socrates' part provided a great deal of the drive behind his tireless pursuit of questions like "What is justice?": he believed that if only we knew the answer to that question we would be bound to behave justly. In such cases, the pursuit of knowledge and an aspiration to virtue are one and the same thing.£¼Bryan Magee(1998), The Story of Philosophy£¾
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