I'd say he nailed it.

[WinstonSmith4740]

I get a "thought of the day" when I open my phone. Here's today's.

"We can easily forgive the child who is afraid of the dark. The real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light." Socrates

[niyad]

1. So very true about the last part.

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

[SergeStorms]

4. "Understand" would have been...

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

[niyad]

5. You are quite correct.

[Kid Berwyn]

2. Teeny tiny men.

[niyad]

6. What occasion was this? The scowl on krasnov's face! I thought

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

[Kid Berwyn]

8. The Night of the Long Shot

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

[SergeStorms]

3. Ooooh! I like that one.

I'm going to commit that to my memory.

[sl8]

7. Famous misquotation?

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/