For he who is a corrupter of the laws is more than likely to be a corrupter of the young and foolish portion of mankind.
critoby plato
Socrates: For doing evil to another is the same as injuring him? Crito: Very true. Socrates: Then we ought not to retaliate or render evil for evil to anyone, whatever evil we may have suffered from him.
Tell us what complaint you have to make against us which justifies you in attempting to destroy us and the State? In the first place did we not bring you into existence? Since you were brought into the world and nurtured and educated by us, can you deny in the first place that you are our child and slave, as your fathers were before you?