How many of us lived as he does. I don't buy much at all and don't shower every day, but did you skim that far to see how he lived... And how many of us would choose death over exile.
To make it easier, as that's what much of life should be about. To make things like gaining more knowledge easier for others .. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socrates .
It was Plato who said, “He, O men, is the wisest, who like Socrates, knows that his wisdom is in truth worth nothing”