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[49e] to this starting point? For I have long held this belief and I hold it yet, but if you have reached any other conclusion, speak and explain it to me. If you still hold to our former opinion, hear the next point.

Crito
I do hold to it and I agree with you; so go on.

Socrates
Now the next thing I say, or rather ask, is this: “ought a man to do what he has agreed to do, provided it is right, or may he violate his agreements?”

Crito
He ought to do it.

Socrates
Then consider whether, if we go away


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