For Socrates' Day, the most famous painting of the sage: "Death of Socrates" (1787), by Jacques-Louis David
On Virtue: Socrates in mainly interested in the question of “how should one live?”. If you know what a virtue is then you automatically know how to act in each situation. Socrates believes that nobody does wrong willingly but only due to ignorance and therefore the whole virtue is knowledge because it is impossible to have only a single virtue without having all of them. Knowledge of a virtue automatically leads acting in accordance with it because there is no reason why one should choose a worse option if a better is known. -- derived from Socrates from THEOSOPHY, Vol. 27, No. 9, July, 1939 Pages 387-394
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On Humor: True humor has been employed by sages from the beginning of recorded history. We see Socrates' subtle humor in Plato's Ion in which the pomposity and self-deception of the self-appointed Homer-expert is made embarassingly apparent. As with all Perennialist sages, Socrates fought against the degrading tendencies and institutions of his day with the higher powers of humor. Plato attacked the excesses of the sophists who trained young men in nothing other than propaganda and pompous oratory, by revealing their vain pedantry and pomposity in his dialogues. -- Hermes-press
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