Socrates, "Our Imam"

While incarcerated, Socrates discoursed and, when given the opportunity to escape, he refused; in so doing, he offered to humanity liberation from the two most grievous things which afflict it: death and imprisonment.

Seneca the Younger, Letters to Lucilius, No. 24 (the Latin translation is my own).


Our Imam Suqrat (as Abu Bakr al-Razi referred to him) taught that the most insidious of diseases are diseases of the will.