The Apology, Phaedo, and Crito of Plato |
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able admit Æsop Anaxagoras animals answer Anytus Apollodorus argument art thou Athenians Athens aught better body cause Certainly Chrysippus consider Crito dead death desire didst divine dost thou earth Echecrates endure Epictetus everything evil existence eyes fear friends give gods Gyaros happens harm harmony hath hear Heracles Heraclitus immortal intelligence Iolaus justice kind knowledge live look man's manner matter mean Meletus mind never opinion pain pass perish Phad Phædo Phidias philosopher Plato pleasure praise principles rational rational animal reason remember ruling faculty sense Socrates sort soul speak suppose surely Tartarus tell thee Thessaly thine things thou art thou dost thou hast thou shalt thou shouldst thou wilt thought thy power thyself tranquillity true truth understanding universal nature unto virtue whole wilt thou wisdom wise words wouldst wrong Zeus
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Page 38 - But I would have you consider, Crito, whether you really mean what you are saying. For this opinion has never been held, and never will be held, by any considerable number of persons; and those who are agreed and those who are not agreed upon this point have no common ground, and can only despise one another when they see how widely they differ. Tell me, then, whether you agree with and assent to my first principle, that neither injury nor retaliation nor warding off evil by evil is ever right.
Page 16 - I honor and love you ; but I shall obey God rather than you, and while I have life and strength I shall never cease from the practice and teaching of philosophy...
Page 28 - I shall then be able to continue my search into true and false knowledge; as in this world, so also in the next; and I shall find out who is wise, and who pretends to be wise, and is not.
Page 28 - Wherefore, O judges, be of good cheer about death, and know of a certainty, that no evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death. He and his are not neglected by the gods; nor has my own approaching end happened by mere chance.
Page 122 - Him- why should not such a man call himself a citizen of the world, why not a son of God, and why should he be afraid of anything which happens among men?
Page 244 - When thou wishest to delight thyself, think of the virtues of those who live with thee; for instance, the activity of one, and the modesty of another, and the liberality of a third, and some other good quality of a fourth.
Page 44 - ... to wrong, that is to say, yourself, your friends, your country, and us, we shall be angry with you while you live, and our brethren, the laws...
Page 238 - If any man is able to convince me and show me that I do not think or act right, I will gladly change ; for I seek the truth by which no man was ever injured. But he is injured who abides in his error and ignorance.
Page 7 - I am better off than he is — for he knows nothing, and thinks that he knows ; I neither know nor think that I know.
Page 25 - Some one will say : Yes, Socrates, but cannot you hold your tongue, and then you may go into a foreign city, and no one will interfere with you?