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Socrates
Socrates. Then, most excellent friend, we must not consider at all what the many will say of us, but what he who knows about right and wrong, the one man, and truth herself will say. And so you introduced the discussion wrongly in the first place, when you began by saying we ought to consider the opinion of the multitude about the right and the noble and the good and their opposites. But it might, of course, be said that the multitude can put us to death.
Crito
Crito. That is clear, too. It would be said, Socrates.
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Socrates
Socrates. That is true. But, my friend, the argument we have just finished seems to me still much the same as before; and now see whether we still hold to this, or not, that it is not living, but living well which we ought to consider most important.
Crito
Crito. We do hold to it.
Socrates
Socrates. And that living well and living rightly are the same thing, do we hold to that, or not?
