"Their role in the deterioration of morals was likewise contributory . . . the sophists unwittingly quickened disintegration. [Most] were men of high character and decent life, but they did not transmit to their pupils the tradition or the wisdom that had made . . .
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Every clever youth could now feel himself fit to sit in judgment upon the moral code of his people; reject it, if he could not understand and approve it; and then be free to rationalize his desires as the virtues of an emancipated soul." -- will durant, the life of greece
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