“Crito, Crito, we owe a cock to Asclepius. Pay it and do not neglect it.”

“I would not have him sorrow at my hard lot, or say at the burial, Thus we lay out Socrates, or, Thus we follow him to the grave or bury him; for false words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil. Be of good cheer then, my good Crito, and say that you are burying my body only, and do with that as is usual, and as you think best.”

“We owe to our Mother-Country the Duty of Subjects but will not pay her the Submission of Slaves.”

“[In what way would you have us bury you? ] In any way that you like; only you must get hold of me, and take care that I do not walk away from you. …I cannot make Crito believe that I am the same Socrates who have been talking and conducting the argument; he fancies that I am the other Socrates whom he will soon see, a dead body… And though I have spoken many words in the endeavor to show that when I have drunk the poison I shall leave you and go to the joys of the blessed—these words of mine, with which I comforted you and myself, have had, I perceive, no effect upon Crito. …you should be my surety to him that I shall not remain, but go away and depart; and then he will suffer less at my death, and not be grieved when he sees my body being burned or buried.”

“If you owe a man a dollar, pay it; if you owe him a grudge, forget it, and always be kind.”

“Still paying, still to owe.
Eternal woe!”

“Worrying is like paying a debt you don't owe.”

“If our friends do us a service, we think they owe it to us by their title of friend. We never think that they do not owe us their friendship.”

“There is also an old proverb, that they who pay much attention to the body generally neglect the soul.”

“Ah cannot we
As well as cocks and lions jocund be,
After such pleasures?”