399 BC · Skopia

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Plato, Apology · 399 BC

★ 9.7

Courtroom speech · Speech · Philosophical literature

I know that I do not know.

Socrates

Plato, Apology · 399 BC

★ 8.1

Nonfiction · Philosophy

The Last Days of Socrates (includes Apology)

Plato

399 BC · 256 pages

Charged with corrupting the young and denying the gods, Socrates defends himself, refuses the escape his friends arrange, argues that the soul survives, then drinks the poison. His calm is the hard part.

★ 7.5

Biography

How many things I can do without!

Socrates

Diogenes Laertius, The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers · 399 BC

★ 4.9

Philosophical dialogue · Philosophical literature

It is never right to do wrong or to requite wrong with wrong, or when we suffer evil to defend ourselves by doing evil in return.

Socrates

Plato, Crito · 399 BC

★ 4.9

Courtroom speech · Speech · Philosophical literature

Socrates, he says, breaks the law by corrupting young men and not recognizing the gods that the city recognizes, but some other new deities.

Socrates

Plato, Apology · 399 BC

★ 4.0

Courtroom speech · Speech · Philosophical literature

To fear death, my friends, is only to think ourselves wise, without being wise: for it is to think that we know what we do not know.

Socrates

Plato, Apology · 399 BC

★ 4.0

Courtroom speech · Speech · Philosophical literature

Virtue does not come from money, but from virtue comes money and all other good things to man, both to the individual and to the state.

Socrates

Plato, Apology · 399 BC

★ 4.0

Courtroom speech · Speech · Philosophical literature

But already it is time to depart, for me to die, for you to go on living; which of us takes the better course, is not known to anyone except God.

Socrates

Plato, Apology · 399 BC

★ 2.4

Courtroom speech · Speech · Philosophical literature

If you were prepared to let me go on those terms, I should reply to you as follows: "I have the greatest fondness and affection for you, fellow Athenians, but I will obey my god rather than you."

Socrates

Plato, Apology · 399 BC

★ 2.3

Courtroom speech · Speech · Philosophical literature

Death is, you see, one or the other of two things: either to be dead is to be non-existent, as it were, and a dead person has no awareness of anything at all; or else, as we are told, the soul undergoes some sort of transformation, or exchanging of this present world for another.

Socrates

Plato, Apology · 399 BC

★ 2.2