Quotes From Plato S Apology

So i am likely to be wiser than he to this small extent, that i do not think i know what i do not know.” They spoke so persuasively, that they almost made me forget myself, and yet, they have hardly spoken one word of truth. “the apology” recounts the speech socrates delivers to the court of athens that means to put him to death for his odd practices.

Will not, when in earnest, write them in ink. And yet, hardly anything of what they said is true. Plato’s apology 17a how you, men of athens, have been affected by my accusers, i do not know.

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A few weeks later socrates died. “let us reflect in this way, too, that there is good hope that death is a blessing, for it is one of two things: They spoke so persuasively, that they almost made me forget myself, and yet, they have hardly spoken one word of truth. Death, he says, is either an endless dreamless sleep, which is nothing to fear, or it leads to an afterlife where, he imagines, he will be able to carry on philosophizing.