"The breath Of accusation kills an innocent name, And leaves for lame acquittal the poor life, Which is a mask without it."

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There are a great many of these accusers, and they have been accusing me now for a great many years, and what is more, they approached you at the most impressionable age, when some of you were children or adolescents; and literally won their case by default, because there was no one to defend me.

— Socrates