The Complete Works of Plato

let the speaker speak truly and the judge decide justly.

and endeavour to clear away in a short time, a slander which has lasted a long time.

fond of the state, or, in other words, of us her laws (and who would care about a state which has no laws?

This, dear Crito, is the voice which I seem to hear murmuring in my ears, like the sound of the flute in the ears of the mystic; that voice, I say, is humming in my ears, and prevents me from hearing any other.

SOCRATES: Leave me then, Crito, to fulfil the will of God, and to follow whither he leads.

when he has become of age and has seen the ways of the city

But he who has experience of the manner in which we order justice and administer the state, and still remains, has entered into an implied contract that he will do as we command him.

Will you, O professor of true virtue, pretend that you are justified in this?

Has a philosopher like you failed to discover that our country is more to be valued and higher and holier far than mother or father or any ancestor, and more to be regarded in the eyes of the gods and of men of understanding?

we further proclaim to any Athenian by the liberty which we allow him