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Did Plato say “The unexamined life is not worth living”?

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Did Plato say “The unexamined life is not worth living”?

Found word for word. Yes. The text appears in works attributed to Plato. Source and location below.

… gain that daily to discourse about virtue, and of those other things about which you hear me examining myself and others, is the greatest good of man, and that the unexamined life is not worth living, you are still less likely to believe me. Yet I say what is true, although a thing of which it is hard for me to persuade you. Also, I have never been accustomed to think that I deserve to suffer any harm. Had I money I might have estimated the offence at what I was able to pay, and not have been much the worse. But I have none, and therefore I must ask you to proportion the fine to my means. Well, perhaps I could afford a mina, and therefore I propose that penalty: Plato, Cr …
Apology — Plato, ¶104 · Public domain (US), Project Gutenberg #1656 · source

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