Socrates, a famous thinker, philosopher, educator and citizen juror in ancient Greece, together with his student Plato and Plato's student Aristotle, is known as the "three sages of ancient Greece", and is widely regarded by later generations as the founder of western philosophy.

As a citizen of Athens, it is recorded that Socrates was finally sentenced to death by the Athens court for insulting the Athenian God and corrupting the thoughts of Athenian youth. Although he had the opportunity to escape to Athens, Socrates still chose to drink poison pansy juice to die, because he thought that escape would only further undermine the authority of Athenian law, and because he was worried that there would be no good teachers in Athens to educate people after his escape.

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