I'd say he nailed it.

[WinstonSmith4740]

I get a "thought of the day" when I open my phone. Here's today's.

"We can easily forgive the child who is afraid of the dark. The real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light." Socrates

[niyad]

1. So very true about the last part.

But children do not need to be "forgiven" for being afraid of the dark, as though they were doing something wrong.

[SergeStorms]

4. "Understand" would have been...

a better choice of word, but Socrates was under the influence of hemlock at the time, so I can understand. 😉

[niyad]

5. You are quite correct.

[Kid Berwyn]

2. Teeny tiny men.

[niyad]

6. What occasion was this? The scowl on krasnov's face! I thought

that it was the right side of that monster's face that was drooping, but here his left eye is nearly shut.

[Kid Berwyn]

8. The Night of the Long Shot

The presser just after the guy ran through security at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner.

They wanted to sell us the Big Beautiful Ballroon and Führerbunker.

The little fellahs clean up nice, don’t they? LOLOLOL

[WinstonSmith4740]

11. And look at his mouth.

That's a serious droop on the left side of his mouth. My late husband had a bad stroke and his mouth didn't droop like that.

[evolves]

12. Playing dress-up

and trying to look like adults.

[lastlib]

14. Small, WEAK men, with tears in their eyes.....

(...and stupid in their brains....)

[SergeStorms]

3. Ooooh! I like that one.

I'm going to commit that to my memory.

[sl8]

7. Famous misquotation?

Although, the (false ?) attributions I'm seeing are to Plato, not Socrates.

https://atkinsbookshelf.wordpress.com/2019/01/06/famous-misquotations-we-can-easily-forgive-a-child-who-is-afraid-of-the-dark-the-real-tragedy/

[Tasmanian Devil]

10. Nice writeup!

I particularly liked this:

... it is very likely that in a few years, yet another writer will paraphrase the modern version of the quotation, distorting the wording and meaning of Lucretius’ original quote even further. At that point, we should take pity on Plato and simply attribute the quote to Abraham Lincoln. Finis.

My favorite quote of all time:

Don’t believe everything you read on the Internet. — Abraham Lincoln

[da svenster]

9. the last words of socrates...

i read this, and i was thinking of the immortal words of socrates, who said, "... I drank what?"

[wendyb-NC]

13. Yes, indeed

Thank you for posting that quote. It's timeless.