Socrates was executed for misleading the Athenian youth and impiety.
Plato was respected as a philosopher, and died enjoying himself.
Aristotle got a lift off from being a student of Plato and a tutor of Alexander the great. He was respected as a philosopher who extended his inquiries to all branches of philosophy and science, establishing a large school whose students did much of his work. He came to despise Alexander, and then had to flee Athens in fear of getting the same treatment as Socrates.
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