Courtroom speech · Speech · Philosophical literatureThe unexamined life is not worth living.SocratesPlato, Apology · 399 BC★ 9.7
Courtroom speech · Speech · Philosophical literatureI know that I do not know.SocratesPlato, Apology · 399 BC★ 8.1
BiographyHow many things I can do without!SocratesDiogenes Laertius, The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers · 399 BC★ 4.9
Philosophical dialogue · Philosophical literatureIt 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.SocratesPlato, Crito · 399 BC★ 4.9
Courtroom speech · Speech · Philosophical literatureSocrates, he says, breaks the law by corrupting young men and not recognizing the gods that the city recognizes, but some other new deities.SocratesPlato, Apology · 399 BC★ 4.0
Courtroom speech · Speech · Philosophical literatureTo 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.SocratesPlato, Apology · 399 BC★ 4.0
Courtroom speech · Speech · Philosophical literatureVirtue 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.SocratesPlato, Apology · 399 BC★ 4.0
Courtroom speech · Speech · Philosophical literatureBut 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.SocratesPlato, Apology · 399 BC★ 2.4
Courtroom speech · Speech · Philosophical literatureIf 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."SocratesPlato, Apology · 399 BC★ 2.3
Courtroom speech · Speech · Philosophical literatureDeath 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.SocratesPlato, Apology · 399 BC★ 2.2
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