Socrates (469/470-399 BCE)
“Consider this: Is the pious being loved by the gods because it is pious, or is it pious because it is being loved by the gods?”
- This saying, attributed to Socrates, was recorded in Plato’s Euthyphro (section 10a). The translation used here is by G. M. A. Grube, revised by John M. Cooper (Hackett Publishing, 2000).
