We must not then, my excellent friend, so much regard what the multitude will say of us , but what he will say who understand the just and the unjust. The one, even truth itself. So that at first you did not set out with a right principle, when you laid it down that we ought to regard the opinion of the multitude with respect to things just and honorable and good , and the ircontraries. How ever, someone may say, are not the multitude able to put us to death?