How wonderfully it is related to that which seems to be its opposite, pain, in that they will not both come to a man at the same time,and yet if he pursues the one and captures it, he is generally obliged to take the other also, as if the two were joined together in one head.
"We believe, do we not, that death is the separation of the soul from the body, and that the state of being dead is the state in which the body is separated from the soul and exists alone by itself and the soul is separated from the body and exists alone by itself? Is death anything other than this?" "No, it is this," said he. "Now, my friend, see if you agree with me; for, if you do, I think w...
"Then, Simmias," said he, "is this the state of the case? If, as we are always saying, the beautiful exists, and the good, and every essence of that kind, and if we refer all our sensations to these, which we find existed previously and are now ours, and compare our sensations with these, is it not a necessary inference that just as these abstractions exist, so our souls existed before we were ...
"Now answer," said he. "What causes the body in which it is to be alive?" "The soul," he replied. "Is this always the case?" "Yes," said he, "of course." "Then if the soul takes possession of anything it always brings life to it?" "Certainly," he said. "Is there anything that is the opposite of life?" "Yes," said he. "What?" "Death." "Now the soul, as we have agreed before, will never admit the...
<原文开始></Such was the end,Echecrates,of our friend,who was,as we may say,of all those of his time whom we have known ,the best and wisest and most righteous man.原文结束>
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