"Apology" Quotes
Socrates defends himself in court against the charges of corrupting the youth and impiety.
philosophy | 127 pages | Published in NaN
Quotes
I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.
The hour of departure has arrived, and we go our ways - I to die, and you to live. Which is better, only God knows.
No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.
I am wiser than this man, for neither of us appears to know anything great and good; but he fancies he knows something, although he knows nothing; whereas I, as I do not know anything, so I do not fancy I do.
I am the gadfly of the Athenian people, given to them by God, and they will never have any other, if they are to be saved.
We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.
I was really too honest a man to be a politician and live.
No man should bring children into the world who is unwilling to persevere to the end in their nature and education.
One who is injured ought not to return the injury, for on no account can it be right to do an injustice; and it is not right to return an injury, or to do evil to any man, however much we have suffered from him.
The difficulty, my friends, is not in avoiding death, but in avoiding unrighteousness; for that runs faster than death.
