The Apology of Socrates to the Jury, 32

Xenophon  translated by O. J. Todd

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32And as for Socrates, by exalting himself before the court, he brought ill-will upon himself and made his conviction by the jury all the more certain. Now to me he seems to have met a fate that the gods love; for he escaped the hardest part of life and met the easiest sort of death.

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