_Cr._ Certainly not. _Soc._ Nor when injured injure in return, as the many imagine; for we must injure no one at all[20]? _Cr._ Clearly not. _Soc._ Again, Crito, may we do evil? _Cr._ Surely not, Socrates. [Sidenote: May we render evil for evil?] _Soc._ And what of doing evil in return for evil, which is the morality of the many—is that just or not? _Cr._ Not just. _Soc._ For doing evil to another is the same as injuring him? _Cr._ Very true. [Sidenote: _The address of the Laws._] [Sidenote: Or is evil always to be deemed evil? Are you of the same mind as formerly about all this?] _Soc._ Then we ought not to retaliate or render evil for evil to any one, whatever evil we may have suffered from him. But I would have you consider, Crito, whether you really mean what you are saying. For this opinion has never been held, and never will be held, by any considerable number of persons; and those who are agreed and those who are not agreed upon this point have no common ground, and can only despise one another when they see how widely they differ. Tell me, then, whether you agree with and assent to my first principle, that neither injury nor retaliation nor warding off evil by evil is ever right. And shall that be the premiss of our argument? Or do you decline and dissent from this? For so I have ever thought, and continue to think; but, if you are of another opinion, let me hear what you have to say. If, however, you remain of the same mind as formerly, I will proceed to the next step. [Sidenote: Crito assents.] _Cr._ You may proceed, for I have not changed my mind. [Sidenote: Then ought Socrates to desert or not?] _Soc._ Then I will go on to the next point, which may be put in the form of a question:—Ought a man to do what he admits to be right, or ought he to betray the right? _Cr._ He ought to do what he thinks right. _Soc._ But if this is true, what is the application? In leaving the prison against the will of the Athenians, do I 50 wrong any? or rather do I not wrong those whom I ought least to wrong? Do I not desert the principles which were acknowledged by us to be just—what do you say? _Cr._ I cannot tell, Socrates; for I do not know. [Sidenote: The Laws come and argue with him.—Can a State exist in which law is set aside?]