Dialogue

 1 Crito|       life in obedience to the laws of the state...~The days
 2 Crito| Socrates proceeds:—Suppose the Laws of Athens to come and remonstrate
 3 Crito|     injured him,’ will not the Laws answer, ‘Yes, but was that
 4 Crito|     any well-ordered state the Laws will consider him as an
 5 Crito|         and their brethren the Laws of the world below will
 6 Crito|      has been subjected by the laws of his country to an unjust
 7 Crito|     The personification of the Laws, and of their brethren the
 8 Crito|      and of their brethren the Laws in the world below, is one
 9 Crito|       which you like), and the laws and the government come
10 Crito|       yours to overturn us—the laws, and the whole state, as
11 Crito|     were trained? Were not the laws, which have the charge of
12 Crito|    make to this, Crito? Do the laws speak truly, or do they
13 Crito|    they do.~SOCRATES: Then the laws will say: ‘Consider, Socrates,
14 Crito|     goods with him. None of us laws will forbid him or interfere
15 Crito|     know other states or their laws: your affections did not
16 Crito|       pay no respect to us the laws, of whom you are the destroyer;
17 Crito|      in other words, of us her laws (and who would care about
18 Crito|     about a state which has no laws?), that you never stirred
19 Crito|      you as a subverter of the laws, and you will confirm in
20 Crito|      who is a corrupter of the laws is more than likely to be
21 Crito|   justice and institutions and laws being the best things among
22 Crito|        violate the most sacred laws from a miserable desire
23 Crito|     evil; a victim, not of the laws, but of men. But if you
24 Crito|    live, and our brethren, the laws in the world below, will