Meditations VII.44

[Citations from Plato]: I might fairly answer such a questioner: Thou art mistaken if thou thinkest that a man, who is worth anything at all, ought to let considerations of life and death weigh with him rather than in all that he does consider but this, whether it is just or unjust and the work of a good man or a bad.⁵⁷

• 57.Plato’s Apology 28 B. Socrates is answering a question whether he is not ashamed of risking his life in a vocation such as his.