From Plato. 'My answer, full of justice, should be this: You are wrong if you think a man of any worth should worry about life or death as great dangers. He should care only about one thing: examining his own actions. Are they just or unjust? Are they the actions of a good man or a wicked man? Here is the truth, men of Athens. Whatever position a man has chosen for himself, thinking it best, or whatever position lawful authority has placed him in — there he should stay. He should fear neither death nor anything else as much as he fears doing something shameful or wrong.
Out of Plato. 'My answer, full of justice and equity, should be this: Thy speech is not right, O man! if thou supposest that he that is of any worth at all, should apprehend either life or death, as a matter of great hazard and danger; and should not make this rather his only care, to examine his own actions, whether just or unjust: whether actions of a good, or of a wicked man, &c. For thus in very truth stands the case, O ye men of Athens. What place or station soever a man either hath chosen to himself, judging it best for himself; or is by lawful authority put and settled in, therein do I think (all appearance of danger notwithstanding) that he should continue, as one who feareth neither death, nor anything else, so much as he feareth to commit anything that is vicious and shameful, &c.