Dialogue

 1 Crito|       is willing to give up his life in obedience to the laws
 2 Crito|      the many: whereas, all his life long he has followed the
 3 Crito|       no difference; but a good life, in other words, a just
 4 Crito|    words, a just and honourable life, is alone to be valued.
 5 Crito|        of justice first, and of life and children afterwards.
 6 Crito|         he had professed in his life. Not ‘the world,’ but the ‘
 7 Crito|         be the last day of your life.~SOCRATES: Very well, Crito;
 8 Crito|       value money more than the life of a friend? For the many
 9 Crito| Socrates, in betraying your own life when you might be saved;
10 Crito|  deteriorated by disease, would life be worth having? And that
11 Crito|         not.~SOCRATES: And will life be worth having, if that
12 Crito|    another proposition—that not life, but a good life, is to
13 Crito|       that not life, but a good life, is to be chiefly valued?~
14 Crito|  unshaken.~SOCRATES: And a good life is equivalent to a just
15 Crito|      ready to restore people to life, if they were able, as they
16 Crito|        with one another all our life long only to discover that
17 Crito|         desire of a little more life? Perhaps not, if you keep
18 Crito|    brought you up. Think not of life and children first, and
19 Crito|        holier or juster in this life, or happier in another,