The Trial and Death of Socrates

And when we are punished by her, whether with imprisonment or stripes, the punishment is to be endured in silenc

t our country is more to be valued and higher and holier far than mother or father or any ancestor

ere brought into the world and nurtured and educated by us, can you deny in the first place that you are our child and slave

the whole state, as far as in you lies? Do you imagine that a state can subsist and not be overthrown, in which the decisions of law have no power, but are set aside and overthrown by individuals

—Ought a man to do what he admits to be right, or ought he to betray the right

ith one another all our life long only to discover that we are no better than children

ought we to follow the opinion of the many and to fear them; or the opinion of the one man who

And the opinions of the wise are good, and the opinions of the unwise are evil?

Tell me then, whether I am right in saying that some opinions, and the opinions of some men only, are to be valued, and other opinions, and the opinions of other men, are not to be valued

as I was saying, that the opinions of some men are to be regarded, and of other men not to be regarded