Dialogue

 1 Crito|          And although some one will say ‘the many can kill us,’
 2 Crito|  rhetorician would have had much to say upon that point.’ It may
 3 Crito|            Then why did you sit and say nothing, instead of at once
 4 Crito|             is what the authorities say.~SOCRATES: But I do not
 5 Crito|        persuaded, then, and do as I say.~SOCRATES: Yes, Crito, that
 6 Crito|            helping you to escape. I say, therefore, do not hesitate
 7 Crito|             our account, and do not say, as you did in the court (
 8 Crito|   destruction. And further I should say that you are deserting your
 9 Crito|        persuaded by me, and do as I say.~SOCRATES: Dear Crito, your
10 Crito|        shall or shall not do as you say. For I am and always have
11 Crito|            not regard what the many say of us: but what he, the
12 Crito|            of just and unjust, will say, and what the truth will
13 Crito|             and what the truth will say. And therefore you begin
14 Crito| dishonorable.—‘Well,’ some one will say, ‘but the many can kill
15 Crito|          like to know whether I may say the same of another proposition—
16 Crito|           will.~SOCRATES: Are we to say that we are never intentionally
17 Crito|             acts unjustly? Shall we say so or not?~CRITO: Yes.~SOCRATES:
18 Crito|            me hear what you have to say. If, however, you remain
19 Crito|           us to be just—what do you say?~CRITO: I cannot tell, Socrates,
20 Crito|            Tell us, Socrates,’ they say; ‘what are you about? are
21 Crito|            will have a good deal to say on behalf of the law which
22 Crito|         unjust sentence.’ Suppose I say that?~CRITO: Very good,
23 Crito|           by our aid and begat you. Say whether you have any objection
24 Crito|            his hands?—you would not say this? And because we think
25 Crito|        SOCRATES: Then the laws will say: ‘Consider, Socrates, if
26 Crito|             clear proof,’ they will say, ‘Socrates, that we and
27 Crito|        SOCRATES: Then will they not say: ‘You, Socrates, are breaking
28 Crito|         Socrates? And what will you say to them? What you say here
29 Crito|           you say to them? What you say here about virtue and justice
30 Crito|           about justice and virtue? Say that you wish to live for
31 Crito|            all to wrong, that is to say, yourself, your friends,
32 Crito|           the mystic; that voice, I say, is humming in my ears,
33 Crito|         anything more which you may say will be vain. Yet speak,
34 Crito|             if you have anything to say.~CRITO: I have nothing to
35 Crito|            CRITO: I have nothing to say, Socrates.~SOCRATES: Leave