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

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

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

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

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.

and trying to look like adults.

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

I'm going to commit that to my memory.

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/

I particularly liked this:

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

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