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“The difficulty, my friends, is not in avoiding death, but in avoiding unrighteousness; for that runs faster than death.”
― Apology
― Apology
“He could not harm me, for I do not think it is permitted that a better man be harmed by a worse”
― Apology
― Apology
“For it is owing to their wonder that men both now begin and at first began to philosophize.”
― Metaphysics
― Metaphysics
“The wise man will want to be ever with him who is better than himself.”
― Phaedo
― Phaedo
“[T]hose who practice philosophy in the right way are in training for dying and they fear death least of all men.”
― Phaedo
― Phaedo
Classics and the Western Canon
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