Dying Every Day (Stoic Meditations)

Socrates described a strange experience at his trial. He said that since childhood, a divine sign had sometimes restrained him from doing something he was about to do. In Plato’s account, it offered no program for his life. It only warned him not to go on.

Socrates understood this restraint as divine. 

In the Apology, he says, "It always holds me back from what I am thinking of doing, but never urges me forward.”

The passage leaves us with a question about restraint. [...]

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