Ch. 17
S.
Sceptics ridiculed, i. 90.
Self-interest the universal motive of action, i. 67; natural, i. 75, 201; the ground of piety, i. 89, 202; ii. 229.
Servants, humanity to them, ii. 254.
Shame (false) reproved, ii. 97, 112.
Sickness not an evil, ii. 59; no impediment to the mind, ii. 219.
Socrates, his resignation to the
divine will, i. 19; a citizen of the world, i. 33; his speech to his judges, i. 36; ii. 5, 86; began by the examination of words, i. 60; always preserved the same countenance, i. 85; forbids an unexamined life, i. 87; ii. 41 ; his excuse of the jailer, i. 105; whether he wrote anything, i.113; his pleasantry at his trial, i. 123; wrote hymns in prison, i. 130; made his opponent bear witness to him, i. 149, 221; his chastity, i. 181 ; never provoked in a dispute, i. 50 ; never quarrelled, nor suffered others to quarrel, ii. 161; author of confutation, ii. 47; his modesty, ii. 86, 86 ; his neatness, ii. 202; his courage, ii. .145; in what manner he loved his children, ii. 99, 146; disobeyed the thirty tyrants, ii. 145; died only as to his body, i. 98; his answer when advised to prepare for his trial, i.
116; to Crito, ii. 146.
Solitude a state of repose and freedom, i. 49; ii. 158; to be rendered agreeable by contemplation and dependence on God, ii.
43.
Soul, a portion of the divine essence, i. 53, 62, 133; never willingly deprived of truth, i. 92, 206.
Spartans, i. 9; ii. 263.
Superfluities to be avoided, ii. 236.
Sura, ii. 53.