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Quotation from The Last Days of Socrates by Plato
“The hour of departure has arrived, and we go our ways—I to die, and you to live. Which is better God only knows”
The Last Days of Socrates, Apology 42a, trans. Benjamin Jowett (1892)
The closing words of Socrates' address to the jury.
Citation: "The hour of departure has arrived, and we go our ways—I to die, and you to live. Which is better God only knows" — Plato, The Last Days of Socrates, Apology 42a, trans. Benjamin Jowett (1892). (id the-last-days-of-socrates-q3)
