Excerpt from The Classic and the Beautiful From the Literature of Three Thousand Years, Vol. 6: By the Authors and Orators of All CountriesEu. I understand, Socrates: he means your daemon, or divine guide, that you say accompanies you. And this he makes a point to found his accusation upon, and brings you before the court of justice, knowing that such accusations produce an effect on the many. And so it is. They laugh at me also whenever I pretend to prophesy, and yet I always prophesy truly. It is all envy, but we must not heed them.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.