Apology

by Plato

unexamined life is not worth living, you are still less likely to believe me.

I would rather die having spoken after my manner, than speak in your manner and live.

The difficulty, my friends, is not to avoid death, but to avoid unrighteousness; for that runs faster than death.

If you think that by killing men you can prevent some one from censuring your evil lives, you are mistaken; that is not a way of escape which is either possible or honourable; the easiest and the noblest way is not to be disabling others, but to be improving yourselves.