Now it is time that we are going, I to die and you to live; but which of us has the happier prospect is unknown to anyone but God.
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The hour of departure has arrived, and we go our ways – I to die, and you to live. Which is better only god knows.
Men say that we ought not to enquire into the supreme God and the nature of the universe, nor busy ourselves in searching out the causes of things, and that such enquiries are impious; whereas the very opposite is the truth.
Men of Athens, I honor and I love you, but I will obey the god rather than you and as long as I draw breath and am able, I shall not cease to practice philosophy, to exhort you and in my usual way to point out to any one of you whom I happen to meet.
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The hour of departure has arrived, and we go our ways — I to die, and you to live. Which is better God only knows.
Love is a great spirit. Everything spiritual is in between god and mortal.
God does not play dice with the universe.
And now we go our separate ways, I to die and you to live, which is better God only knows.
What is probable, gentlemen, is that in fact the god is wise and that his oracular response meant that human wisdom is worth little or nothing, and that when he says this man, Socrates, he is using my name as an example, as if he said: “This man among you, mortals, is wisest who, like Socrates, understands that his wisdom is worthless.”
All men are by nature equal, and however we deceive ourselves, as dear unto God is the poor peasant as the mighty prince.