Apology

by Plato · c. 395 BCE

Benjamin Jowett's translation, 1871. 2 parts, about 16,075 words, 73 minutes of reading. Source edition.

Passages the guide marks

The unexamined life is not worth living for a human being.
38a · Read it in Apology
I am very conscious that I am not wise at all; what then does the god mean?
21b · Read it in Apology
Neither I nor he knows anything fine and good, but he thinks he knows something when he does not, while I, if I do not know, do not think that I do.
21d · Read it in Apology
Nothing bad can happen to a good man, either in life or in death, and his affairs are not neglected by the gods.
41d · Read it in Apology
You go to your homes now, and I go to die.
42a

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Public domain in the United States; the Project Gutenberg edition is free of restrictions under the Project Gutenberg License. Translated by Benjamin Jowett. It is not the edition the programs assign; the guide names that one, and the buy links there point at it.

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