Apology, Crito, and Phaedo of Socrates

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

this duty, as I say, has been enjoined me by the deity, by oracles, by dreams, and by every mode by which any other divine decree has ever enjoined anything to man to do.