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"Then there may be reason in saying that a man should wait, and not take his own life until God summons him, as he is now summoning me."

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"Then there may be reason in saying that a man should wait, and not take his own life until God summons him, as he is now summoning me."

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"But he who is a philosopher or lover of learning, and is entirely pure at departing, is alone permitted to reach the gods."

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"But he who is a philosopher or lover of learning, and is entirely pure at departing, is alone permitted to reach the gods."

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"But he who is a philosopher or lover of learning, and is entirely pure at departing, is alone permitted to reach the gods."

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"Why, this: When the feeling of pleasure or pain in the soul is most intense, all of us naturally suppose that the object of this intense feeling is then plainest and truest: but this is not the case."

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"Why, this: When the feeling of pleasure or pain in the soul is most intense, all of us naturally suppose that the object of this intense feeling is then plainest and truest: but this is not the case."

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"No, indeed, he replied; and therefore they who have a care of their souls, and do not merely live in the fashions of the body, say farewell to all this; they will not walk in the ways of the blind: and when philosophy offers them purification and release from evil, they feel that they ought not to resist her influence, and to her they incline, and whither she leads they follow her."

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"And those who have chosen the portion of injustice, and tyranny, and violence, will pass into wolves, or into hawks and kites; whither else can we suppose them to go?"

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"And those who have chosen the portion of injustice, and tyranny, and violence, will pass into wolves, or into hawks and kites; whither else can we suppose them to go?"

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My interpretation of Plato's vision of the soul. 

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"For suppose that we grant even more than you affirm as within the range of possibility, and besides acknowledging that the soul existed before birth admit also that after death the souls of some are existing still, and will exist, and will be born and die again and again, and that there is a natural strength in the soul which will hold out and be born many times." This picture represents Platos idea of reincarnation.

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"Why are they the happiest? Because they may be expected to pass into some gentle, social nature which is like their own, such as that of bees or ants, or even back again into the form of man, and just and moderate men spring from them."

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"Why are they the happiest? Because they may be expected to pass into some gentle, social nature which is like their own, such as that of bees or ants, or even back again into the form of man, and just and moderate men spring from them."

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The soul leaving the body.

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The body being separated from the soul.

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"But within the range of such things, he might well contemplate what there is in the heavenly dome, and this dome itself, more easily during the night by looking at the light of the stars and the moon, [more easily, that is to say,] than by looking at the sun and its glare during the day."

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"Imagine this: People live under the earth in a cavelike dwelling. Stretching a long way up toward the daylight is its entrance, toward which the entire cave is gathered."

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"No, indeed, he replied; and therefore they who have a care of their souls, and do not merely live in the fashions of the body, say farewell to all this; they will not walk in the ways of the blind: and when philosophy offers them purification and release from evil..."

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"But he who is a philosopher or lover of learning, and is entirely pure at departing, is alone permitted to reach the gods."

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"But he who is a philosopher or lover of learning, and is entirely pure at departing, is alone permitted to reach the gods."

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"I mean to say that men who have followed after gluttony, and wantonness, and drunkenness, and have had no thought of avoiding them, would pass into asses and animals of that sort. What do you think?"

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"I mean to say that men who have followed after gluttony, and wantonness, and drunkenness, and have had no thought of avoiding them, would pass into asses and animals of that sort. What do you think?"

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"I mean to say that men who have followed after gluttony, and wantonness, and drunkenness, and have had no thought of avoiding them, would pass into asses and animals of that sort. What do you think?"

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"...who are compelled to wander about such places in payment of the penalty of their former evil way of life;..."

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"Yes, that is very likely, Cebes; and these must be the souls, not of the good, but of the evil..." Plato believed in the good and the evil in the world.

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"The Soul is Imprisoned in the Body."