Crito

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SOCRATES: Why have you come at this hour, Crito? it must be quite early?

CRITO: Yes, certainly.

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CRITO: I should not have liked myself, Socrates, to be in such great trouble and unrest as you are – indeed I should not: I have been watching with amazement your peaceful slumbers; and for that reason I did not awake you, because I wished to minimize the pain. I have always thought you to be of a happy disposition; but never did I see anything like the easy, tranquil manner in which you bear this calamity.

SOCRATES: Why, Crito, when a man has reached my age he ought not to be repining at the approach of death.

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