Crito

by Plato · c. 395 BCE

Benjamin Jowett's translation, 1871. 1 part, about 6,585 words, 30 minutes of reading. Source edition.

Crito3 passages · 6,585 words

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Then we ought not to retaliate or render evil for evil to any one, whatever evil we may have suffered from him.
Crito, 49c · Read it in Crito
Socrates says that they should follow not the opinion of the many about what is just but the opinion of the one who understands it, as a man in training listens to his trainer rather than to the crowd.
Crito, 47a to 48a · Read it in Crito
The Laws ask Socrates whether he imagines a city can survive if private citizens may set aside the verdicts of its courts whenever they judge them wrong.
Crito, 50b
They remind him that he never left Athens except on campaign, that he chose to have children there, and that at his trial he could have proposed exile and did not.
Crito, 52b to 52d · Read it in Crito

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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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