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Page 130 - But those who are found to have lived an eminently holy life, these are they who, being freed and set at large from these regions in the earth, as from a prison, arrive at the pure abode above, and dwell on the upper parts of the earth.
Page 132 - nothing new ; that by taking care of yourselves you will oblige both me and mine and yourselves, whatever you do, though you should not now promise it; but if you neglect yourselves, and will not live as it were in the footsteps of what has been now and formerly said, even though you should promise much at present, and that earnestly, you will do no good at all.' ' We will endeavor then so to do,' he said ; ' but how shall we bury you ? ' 'Just as you please,' he said, ' if only you can catch me,...
Page 131 - On account of these things, then, a man ought to be confident about his soul who, during this life, has disregarded all the pleasures and ornaments of the body as foreign from his nature ; and who, having thought that they do more harm than good, has zealously applied himself to the acquirement of knowledge ; and who, having adorned his soul, not with a foreign, but its own proper ornament — temperance, justice, fortitude, freedom, and truth — thus waits for his passage to Hades, as one who,...
Page 135 - When we heard this we were ashamed, and restrained our tears. But he, having walked about, when he said that his legs were growing heavy, lay down on his back; for the man so directed him. And at the same time he who gave him the poison, taking hold of him, after a short interval examined his feet and legs; and then having pressed his foot hard, he asked if he felt it: he said that he did not.
Page 363 - O beloved Pan ! and all ye other gods of this place ! grant me to become beautiful in the inner man, and that whatever outward things I have may be at peace with those within.
Page 461 - And therefore, Euthyphro, I do not ask you to prove this; I will suppose, if you like, that all the gods condemn and abominate such an action. But I will amend the definition so far as to say that what all the gods hate is impious, and what they love pious or holy; and what some of them love and others hate is both or neither. Shall this be our definition of piety and impiety?
Page 133 - Socrates, I shall not have to find that ' fault with you that I do with others, that they are angry with me, and curse me, when, by order of the archons, I bid them drink the poison. But you, on all other occasions during the time you have been here, I have found to be the most noble, meek, and excellent man of all that ever came into this place ; and, therefore, I am now...
Page 16 - I meet, both young and old, stranger and citizen, but rather to you, my fellow-citizens, because ye are more nearly allied to me. For be well assured, this the deity commands. And I think that no greater good has ever befallen you in the city than my zeal for the service of the god. For I go about doing nothing else than persuading you, both young and old, to take no care either for the body, or for riches, prior to or so much as for the soul, how it may be made most perfect, telling you that virtue...
Page 60 - What an unaccountable thing, my friends, that seems to be, which men call pleasure ; and how wonderfully is it related towards that which appears to be its contrary, pain ; in that they will not both be present to a man at the same time, yet, if any one pursues and attains the one, he is almost always compelled to receive the other, as if they were both united together from one head.
Page 67 - And surely the soul then reasons best when none of these things disturb it, neither hearing, nor sight, nor pain, nor pleasure of any kind, but it retires as much as possible within itself, taking leave of the body, and, as far as it can, not communicating or being in contact with it, it aims at the discovery of that which is.