Socrates Flashcards
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Socrates’ Defence
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So do you think I would have survived for so many years if I had taken a public role and performed it - as any good man should - as the ally of everything just, and making this, as it must be, the highest priority?
Not by a long way, men of Athens: and no one else in the world would survive for long like that either.
But if I have ever performed any action in any public context, you’ll find me exactly as I’ve described, and in private the same: someone who has never yet agreed to anything contrary to justice with anyone at all, and certainly not with any of those they slanderously call my pupils.
