Sublime

He ranked truth above custom, and justice above the law.

And here, O men of Athens, I must beg you not to interrupt me, even if I seem to say something extravagant. For the word which I will speak is not mine. I will refer you to a witness who is worthy of credit; that witness shall be the God of Delphi—he

He, O men, is the wisest, who, like Socrates, knows that his wisdom is in truth worth nothing.

I will assuredly not wrong myself. I will not say of myself that I deserve any evil, or propose any penalty. Why should I? because I am afraid of the penalty of death which Meletus proposes? When I do not know whether death is a good or an evil, why should I propose a penalty which would certainly be an evil?

Their most tragic figure is that of the man who is already free of all those ills he had, and is only asking to be allowed to fly to others that he knows not of.

vous trouverez que, tout au long de mon existence, j'ai été un tel homme quelle que soit la fonction publique que j'ai exercée et que je suis resté le même en privé : je ne me suis jamais laissé convaincre d'agir contre la justice par personne, qu'il s'agisse de l'un de ceux que mes calomniateurs présentent comme mes disciples ou de quelqu'un

Briefly Carleton considered the other man, of whom he’d made such a study he might have been appointed professor of Thomas Studies at the University of Essex. He knew, for example, that Thomas was a confirmed bachelor, as they say, never seen in the company of a beautiful young person or a stately older one; that he had about him the melancholy

But the real great man is the man who makes every man feel great.