Apology: Socrates' Defence

by Plato

I will never fear or avoid a possible good rather than a certain evil.

there is great reason to hope that death is a good, for one of two things: - either death is a state of nothingness and utter unconsciousness, or, as men say, there is a change and migration of the soul from this world to another.

The hour of departure has arrived, and we go our ways - I to die, and you to live. Which is better God only knows.