Plato's Apology 41 C - 42 ASocrates' Final Remarks to the JurySocrates' last request | |
| But you also, judges, must regard
death hopefully and must bear in mind
this one truth, that no evil can come to
a good man either in life or after death,
and God does not neglect him. So,
too, this which had come to me has not
come by chance, but I see plainly that
it was better for me to die now and be
freed from troubles. That is the reason
why the sign never interfered with me,
and I am not at all angry with those
who condemned me or with my
accusers. And yet it was not with that
in view that they condemned and
accused me, but because they thought
to injure me. They deserve blame for
that. However, I make this request of
them: when my sons grow up,
gentlemen, punish them by troubling
them as I have troubled you; if they
seem to you to care for money or
anything else more than for virtue, and
if they think they amount to something
when they do not, rebuke them as I
have rebuked you because they do not
care for what they ought, and think
they amount to something when they
are worth nothing. If you do this, both
I and my sons shall have received just
treatment from you. But now the time has come to go away. I go to die, and you to live; but which of us goes to the better lot, is known to none but the god. | Student name: |