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Quotation from The Last Days of Socrates by Plato
“Such was the end, Echecrates, of our friend; concerning whom I may truly say, that of all the men of his time whom I have known, he was the wisest and justest and best”
The Last Days of Socrates, Phaedo 118a, trans. Benjamin Jowett (1892)
The final sentence of the dialogue.
Citation: "Such was the end, Echecrates, of our friend; concerning whom I may truly say, that of all the men of his time whom I have known, he was the wisest and justest and best" — Plato, The Last Days of Socrates, Phaedo 118a, trans. Benjamin Jowett (1892). (id the-last-days-of-socrates-q5)
Virtues: Friendship
