Dialogue

 1 Crito|     obedience to the laws of the state...~The days of Socrates
 2 Crito|   footsteps? In any well-ordered state the Laws will consider him
 3 Crito|          the laws, and the whole state, as far as in you lies?
 4 Crito|      lies? Do you imagine that a state can subsist and not be overthrown,
 5 Crito|          we reply, ‘Yes; but the state has injured us and given
 6 Crito|     abide by the sentence of the state?’ And if I were to express
 7 Crito| attempting to destroy us and the state? In the first place did
 8 Crito|       justice and administer the state, and still remains, has
 9 Crito|         not go beyond us and our state; we were your especial favourites,
10 Crito|       penalty at banishment; the state which refuses to let you
11 Crito|        other Hellenic or foreign state. Whereas you, above all
12 Crito|      seemed to be so fond of the state, or, in other words, of
13 Crito|       and who would care about a state which has no laws?), that