Plato

Now the hour to part has come. I go to die, you go to live. Which of us goes to the better lot is known to no one, except the god.

This,they say, is how you are supposed to do your part in a war or a battle,Socrates

Oh？Did we "arrive when the feast was over",as the saying goes? Are we late?

You are wrong, sir, if you think that a man who is any good at all should take into account the risk of life or death; he should look to this only in his actions, whether what he does is right or wrong, whether he is acting like a good or a bad man.

I have never been anyone's teacher...And I cannot justly be held responsible for the good or bad conduct of these people, as I never promised to teach them anything and have not done so.

This number, of course, is what we now call "time"

He wants a single 'model' or 'standard' he can look to in order to determine which acts and persons are pious, one that gives clear, unconflicting, and unambiguous answers.

Was Protagoras one of those omniscient people? Did he perhaps put this out as a riddle for the common crowd of us, while he revealed the Truth as a secret doctrine to his own pupils?

When I was a young man I was wonderfully keen on that wisdom which they call natural science, for I thought it splendid to know the causes of everything, why it comes to be, why it perishes and why it exists.

I will not even allow myself to say that where one is added to one either the one to which it is added or the one that is added becomes two, or that the one added and the one to which it is added become two because of the addition of the one to the other.