Socrates: For if I tell you that to do as you say would be a disobedience to the God, and therefore that I cannot hold my tongue, you will not believe that I am serious; and if I say again that daily to discourse about virtue, and of those other things about which you hear me examining myself and others, is the greatest good of man, and that the unexamined life is not worth living, you are still less likely to believe me.Socrates
The hour of departure has arrived, and we go our ways - I to die, and you to live. Which is better God only knows.Socrates
What do I deserve to suffer, or to pay, according to your opinion?Socrates
The difficulty is not to avoid death, but to avoid unrighteousness; for that runs faster than death.Socrates
And now, Athenians, I am not going to argue for my own sake, as you may think, but for yours, that you may not sin against the God by condemning me, who am his gift to you. For if you kill me you will not easily find a successor to me.Socrates
I only wish that ordinary people had an unlimited capacity for doing harm; then they might have an unlimited power for doing good.Socrates
Wealth does not bring about excellence, but excellence makes wealth and everything else good for men, both individually and collectively.Socrates
I am that gadfly which God has attached to the state, and all day long and in all places am always fastening upon you, arousing and persuading and reproaching you.Socrates
Be of good cheer about death, and know this of a truth, that no evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.Socrates
Is there not one true coin, as there appears to be, about which the sophists have nothing to say and have no knowledge of it, but which, when shown by the god, is revealed as a counterfeit?Socrates