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- If on the other hand I tell you that to let no day pass without discussing goodness and all the other subjects about which you hear me talking and examining both myself and others is really the very best thing that a man can do, and that life without this sort of examination is not worth living.
- Socrates, 38
- 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. ...Now if death be of such a nature, I say that to die is to gain; for eternity is then only a single night.
- Socrates, 40
- No evil can happen to a good man, neither in life nor after death.
- Socrates, 41
- The hour of departure has arrived, and we go our ways — I to die, and you to live. Which is better God only knows.
- Socrates, 42