"Now the hour to part has come. I go to die, you go to live. Which of us goes to the better lot is known to no one, except the god."
"Socrates: Why have you come so early, Crito?Or is it not still early? Crito:It certainly is. Socrates: How early? Crito:Early dawn. Socrates: I am surprised that the warder was willing to listen to you. Crito: He is quite friendly to me by now, Socrates. I have been here often and I have given him s"
"For anyone who hears this, who is a true lover of wisdom,with the divine quality that makes him akin to it and worthy of pursuing it, thinks that he has heard of a marvelous request that he must at once enter upon with all earnestness, or life is not worth living; and from that time froth he pushes "
"Diotima:"And if a thing is not wise, it's ignorant? Or haven't you found out yet that there's something in between wisdom and ignorance?" Socrates:"What's that?" Diotima:" It's judging correctly without being able to give a reason. Surely you see that this is not the same as knowing---for how could "
"This,they say, is how you are supposed to do your part in a war or a battle,Socrates"
"Oh?Did we "arrive when the feast was over",as the saying goes? Are we late?"
"You are wrong, sir, if you think that a man who is any good at all should take into account the risk of life or death; he should look to this only in his actions, whether what he does is right or wrong, whether he is acting like a good or a bad man."
"Be sure that this is what the god orders me to do, and I think there is no greater blessing for the city than my service to the god. For I go around doing nothing but persuading both young and old among you not to care for your body or your wealth in preference to or as strongly as for the best poss"