- "I am very conscious that I am not wise at all," (Socrates)
- "in my investigation in the service of the god I found that those who had the highest reputation were nearly the most deficient, while those who were thought to be inferior were more knowledgeable." (Socrates)
- "Either I do not corrupt the young or, if I do, it is unwillingly," (Socrates)
- "You are wrong, sir, if you think that a man who is any good at all should take into account the risk of life or death; he should look to this only in his actions, whether what he does is right or wrong, whether he is acting like a good or a bad man." (Socrates)
- "To fear death, gentlemen, is no other than to think oneself wise when one is not, to think one knows what one does not know." (Socrates)
- "I will not yield to any man contrary to what is right, for fear of death, even if I should die at once for not yielding." (Socrates)
- "It is not the purpose of a juryman's office to give justice as a favor to whoever seems good to him, but to judge according to law, and this he has sworn to do." (Socrates)
- "Since I am convinced that I wrong no one, I am not likely to wrong myself," (Socrates)
- "Neither I nor any other man should, on trial or in way, contrive to avoid death at any cost." (Socrates)
- "Let us reflect in this way, too, that there is good hope that death is a blessing, for it is one of two things: either the dead are nothing and have no perception of anything, or it is, as we are told, a change and a relocation for the soul from here to another place." (Socrates)
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