Apology, Crito, and Phaedo of Socrates

oth young and old, to take no care either for the body, or for riches, prior to or so much as for the soul, how it may be made most perfect, telling you that virtue does not spring from riches, but riches and all other human blessings, both private and public, from virtue.

For that they are not ashamed

it is now time to depart—for me to die, for you to live. But which of us is going to a better state is unknown to every one but God.

after my death a punishment will overtake you, far more severe,

from one place to another.

it is commonly agreed that Socrates in some respects excels the generality of men.

, by Jupiter! than that which you have inflicted on me.

to die is one of two things: for either the dead may be annihilated, and have no sensation of any thing whatever; or, as it is said, there are a certain change and passage of the sou

And now I depart, condemned by you to death; but they condemned by truth, as guilty of iniquity and injustice: and I abide my sentence, and so do they.

we may hence conclude that there is great hope that death is a blessing