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Full Idea
Do I intend to destroy the laws, because the state wronged me by passing a faulty judgement at my trial?
Gist of Idea
Will I stand up against the law, simply because I have been unjustly judged?
Source
Socrates (reports of last days [c.399 BCE]), quoted by Plato - Crito 50c
Book Ref
Plato: 'The Last Days of Socrates', ed/tr. Tredennick,Hugh [Penguin 1969], p.90