Crito

The Crito is Plato's short companion dialogue to the Apology. Set in the days between Socrates' condemnation and his execution, it records the conversation between Socrates and his wealthy friend Crito, who has come to the prison cell at dawn with everything arranged for an escape — and argues that Socrates should take it.

Socrates refuses. The reasons he gives — in the famous "speech of the Laws" — have shaped two and a half millennia of Western political and moral thought: the citizen owes an obligation to the laws under which he has chosen to live; to evade their verdict is to undermine them for everyone; and the philos