Pakistan, Feb. 3 -- Life's a funny thing, isn't it? You spend your years chasing wisdom, searching for meaning, trying to put the puzzle together, and then, in the final moments, you get one last shot at summing it all up.

Some go out with a whisper, some with a laugh, and some with a line so heavy it echoes through the ages. The great minds of history didn't just leave behind their philosophies - they left us with words that, in those fleeting moments before the curtain closed, said more about life than entire books ever could.

Take Socrates, the man who questioned everything until the very end. Sentenced to death for daring to challenge the norms, he took his hemlock with the same calm he took every argument. And what does he leave us...