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Socrates, Don't Be Angrily With Me
Socrates says Caliocles neglects what he ought to care for the most and pervert a naturally noble spirit by putting on a childlike semblance. If anyone should seize you or anyone like you and drag you off the prison, you realize that you would not know what to do, but you would reel to and fro and gape open mouth without a word to say. And yet my dear Socrates, don't be angry with me for I'm saying this out of goodwill towards you. He has mentioned bashing Socrates physically twice. But among the things that's interesting here is that he mentions what might be recognized by some people as the philosopher stone. It's one image of the philosopher