According to Pierre Hadot, “Thus philosophy was a way of life, both in its exercise and in its effort to achieve wisdom, and its goal, wisdom itself. Because true wisdom does not simply make us know: it makes us “be” in a different way” (Pierre 265). This explanation of a philosophical lifestyle is every bit the definition of Socrates' life. Socrates went through his entire life living this way, seeking wisdom, seeking answers, and never had any trouble with the court until he was seventy. He believed that by telling people about ignorance and wisdom, he was doing so only for the good of the people. Socrates even goes so far as to say, “I am that gadfly which God has attached to the state, and all day and in every place I always cling to you, stirring you up, persuading you, and rebuking you” (Plato 9). Socrates believes that he was sent by God to show people a different lifestyle, a life of questioning and reason that he should teach all people. When asked if he was ashamed of a course of life that would probably bring him to an early end, Socrates says: “you are wrong: a man good for everything should not calculate the possibility of living or dying; he should only consider whether, in doing something, he is doing something right or wrong" (Plato 7).