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 1 Intro|   maintained, that ‘to suffer is better than to do evil;’ and the
 2 Intro|      making the worse appear the better cause, and teaching all
 3 Intro|         the gods, because it was better for him to depart; and therefore
 4 Text |        made the worse appear the better cause. The disseminators
 5 Text |       makes the worse appear the better cause; and he teaches the
 6 Text |         beautiful and good, I am better off than he is,— for he
 7 Text |   esteemed were really wiser and better. I will tell you the tale
 8 Text |        who would not have talked better about their poetry than
 9 Text |         to the oracle that I was better off as I was.~This inquisition
10 Text |      making the worse appear the better cause; for they do not like
11 Text |         by Zeus I will: Which is better, to live among bad citizens,
12 Text | admonished me; for if I had been better advised, I should have left
13 Text |  injustice and disobedience to a better, whether God or man, is
14 Text |        not permitted to injure a better than himself. I do not deny
15 Text |       honour and command, are no better than women. And I say that
16 Text |        in the course of his life better and more pleasantly than
17 Text |          had arrived when it was better for me to die and be released
18 Text |        and you to live. Which is better God only knows.~THE END~