At the cost of his life, Socrates underlined a paradoxical truth about human freedom, law and society: it is only in a society that men can hope for any true and lasting freedom, and it is only where law prevails that a society can exist.

• 苏格拉底用自己的死诠释了关于自由、法律和社会矛盾而又统一的关系：人只有在社会里才能享受到真正的、持久的自由，而这样的社会只有在法律至上时才存在。