Socrates invented the art of cultivating a beautiful soul, perhaps because he was been born with such a famously ugly face.
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Better living through better thinking.
Ancient philosophy proposed to mankind an art of living. By contrast, modern philosophy appears above all as the construction of a technical jargon reserved for specialists.
Socrates had no system to teach. Throughout, his philosophy was a spiritual exercise, an invitation to a new way of life, active reflection, and living consciousness.