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A review by crzydjm
Apology by Plato
4.0
A great one to kick off 2025 with. Short but brutally truthful. As I did in 2024, highlights interspersed with thoughts for everything I read...
- "... let the speaker speak truly and the judge decide justly."
- "...but the truth is, O men of Athens, that God only is wise; and by his answer he intends to show that the wisdom of men is worth little or nothing"
- "...a man who is good for anything ought not to calculate the chance of living or dying; he ought only to consider whether in doing anything he is doing right or wrong—acting the part of a good man or of a bad"
- "...and no one knows whether death, which men in their fear apprehend to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good"
- "Reflecting that I was really too honest a man to be a politician and live, I did not go where I could do no good to you or to myself; but where I could do the greatest good privately to every one of you, thither I went, and sought to persuade every man among you that he must look to himself, and seek virtue and wisdom before he looks to his private interests"
- "...and if I say again that daily to discourse about virtue, and of those other things about which you hear me examining myself and others, is the greatest good of man, and that the unexamined life is not worth living, you are still less likely to believe me"
- "The difficulty, my friends, is not to avoid death, but to avoid unrighteousness"
- "Let us reflect in another way, and we shall see that there is great reason to hope that death is a good; for one of two things—either death is a state of nothingness and utter unconsciousness, or, as men say, there is a change and migration of the soul from this world to another."
- "... let the speaker speak truly and the judge decide justly."
- "...but the truth is, O men of Athens, that God only is wise; and by his answer he intends to show that the wisdom of men is worth little or nothing"
- "...a man who is good for anything ought not to calculate the chance of living or dying; he ought only to consider whether in doing anything he is doing right or wrong—acting the part of a good man or of a bad"
- "...and no one knows whether death, which men in their fear apprehend to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good"
- "Reflecting that I was really too honest a man to be a politician and live, I did not go where I could do no good to you or to myself; but where I could do the greatest good privately to every one of you, thither I went, and sought to persuade every man among you that he must look to himself, and seek virtue and wisdom before he looks to his private interests"
- "...and if I say again that daily to discourse about virtue, and of those other things about which you hear me examining myself and others, is the greatest good of man, and that the unexamined life is not worth living, you are still less likely to believe me"
- "The difficulty, my friends, is not to avoid death, but to avoid unrighteousness"
- "Let us reflect in another way, and we shall see that there is great reason to hope that death is a good; for one of two things—either death is a state of nothingness and utter unconsciousness, or, as men say, there is a change and migration of the soul from this world to another."