SOCRATES: Leave me then, Crito, to fulfil the will of God, and to follow whither he leads.
This, dear Crito, is the voice which I seem to hear murmuring in my ears, like the sound of the flute in the ears of the mystic; that voice, I say, is humming in my ears, and prevents me from hearing any other.
fond of the state, or, in other words, of us her laws (and who would care about a state which has no laws?