- All's Well That Ends Well
- Antony and Cleopatra
- As You Like It
- The Comedy of Errors
- Coriolanus
- Cymbeline
- Hamlet
- Henry IV, Part 1
- Henry IV, Part 2
- Henry V
- Henry VI, Part 1
- Henry VI, Part 2
- Henry VI, Part 3
- Henry VIII
- Julius Caesar
- King John
- King Lear
- Love's Labor's Lost
- A Lover's Complaint
- Macbeth
- Measure for Measure
- The Merchant of Venice
- The Merry Wives of Windsor
- A Midsummer Night's Dream
- Much Ado About Nothing
- Othello
- Pericles
- The Rape of Lucrece
- Richard II
- Richard III
- Romeo and Juliet
- Shakespeare's Sonnets
- The Taming of the Shrew
- The Tempest
- Timon of Athens
- Titus Andronicus
- Troilus and Cressida
- Twelfth Night
- The Two Gentlemen of Verona
- Venus and Adonis
- The Winter's Tale
After Socrates hears from the Delphic oracle that no one is wiser than him, he sets out to test the idea. To do so, he visits an Athenian politician, but soon realizes this man is not, in fact, all that wise. Instead, this politician is simply vain, as he thinks very highly of his own intellectual capacity. Seeing this, Socrates begins to understand that he actually is wiser than this politician, thereby confirming—in this case, at least—the Delphic oracle’s previous assertion. Of course, Socrates is someone who wants to help the people around him improve, which is why he tries…