Socrate; Apologie de Socrate

Citations

• “The conversational manner, the seeming want of arrangement, the ironical simplicity, are found to result in a perfect work of art, which is the portrait of Socrates.”

• “So in the “Apology” there is an ideal rather than a literal truth; much is said which was not said, and is only Plato’s view of the situation.”

• “I thought at the time that I ought not to do anything common or mean when in danger: nor do I now repent of the style of my defence; I would rather die having spoken after my manner, than speak in your manner and live.”

• “The difficulty, my friends, is not to avoid death, but to avoid unrighteousness; for that runs faster than death.”

• “For the fear of death is indeed the pretence of wisdom, and not real wisdom, being a pretence of knowing the unknown; and no one knows whether death, which men in their fear apprehend to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.”