But if you go away from well-governed States to Crito's friends in Thessaly,where there is great disorder and license, they will be charmed to have the tale ofyour escape from prison, set off with ludicrous particulars of the manner in whichyou were wrapped in a goatskin or some other disguise, and metamorphosed as thefashion of runaways is——that is very likely; but will there be no one to remind youthat in your old age you violated the most sacred laws from a miserable desire of alittle more life? Perhaps not, if you keep them in a good temper; but if they are outof temper you will hear many degrading things; you will live, but how? —— as theflatterer of all men, and the servant of all men; and doing what ?- eating anddrinking in Thessaly, having gone abroad in order that you may get a dinner. Andwhere will be your fine sentiments about justice and virtue then? Say that you wishto live for the sake of your children, that you may bring them up and educatethem——will you take them into Thessaly and deprive them of Athenian citizenship?Is that the benefit which you would confer upon them? Or are you under theimpression that they will be better cared for and educated here if you are still alive,although absent from them; for that your friends will take care of them? Do youfancy that if you are an inhabitant of Thessaly they will take care of them, and if youare an inhabitant of the other world they will not take care of them? Nay; but if theywho call themselves friends are truly friends, they surely wilt.
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