claim: Claims Socrates said, "When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the losers."
evidence: FACT CHECK: Did Socrates Say, ‘When The Debate Is Lost, Slander Becomes The Tool Of The Losers’? An image shared on Facebook claims that ancient Greek philosopher Socrates said, "When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the losers." [...] While Socrates often engaged in philosophical debates, he did not author the statement attributed to him in the Facebook post. "I can affirm that no reliable source ever attributed this statement to Socrates," University of Michigan historian and Socrates expert Sara Ahbel-Rappe told The Daily Caller in an email. "Socrates wrote nothing, so we rely entirely on reports about Socrates from contemporary witnesses, mostly Plato but also Xenophon."