Crito Quotes

“And will life be worth having, if that higher part of man be destroyed, which is improved by justice and depraved by injustice?”
― Plato, Crito

“Socrates: But why, my dear Crito, should we care about the opinion of the many?”
― Plato, Crito

“SOCRATES: For doing evil to another is the same as injuring him? CRITO: Very true. SOCRATES: Then we ought not to retaliate or render evil for evil to anyone, whatever evil we may have suffered from him.”
― Plato, Crito

“For he who is a corrupter of the laws is more than likely to be a corrupter of the young and foolish portion of mankind.”
― Plato, Crito

“Tell us what complaint you have to make against us which justifies you in attempting to destroy us and the State? In the first place did we not bring you into existence? …[S]ince you were brought into the world and nurtured and educated by us, can you deny in the first place that you are our child and slave, as your fathers were before you?”
― Plato, Crito

“But why dear Crito, should we care about the opinion of the many? Good men, and they are the only persons worth considering, will think of these things truly as they occurred.”
― Plato, Crito

“whether in battle or in a court of law, or in any other place, he must do what his city and his country order him; or he must change their view of what is just:”
― Plato, Crito

“Querido Critão! Quão precioso o teu ardor, se alguma retidão o acompanhasse!”
― Plato, Críton