Dialogue

  1 Phaedo|              instead of telling the true reason—that he is here because
  2 Phaedo|            of opposites is not only true of the opposites themselves,
  3 Phaedo|            thick lower air; but the true earth is above, and is in
  4 Phaedo|           then we should behold the true earth and the true heaven
  5 Phaedo|       behold the true earth and the true heaven and the true stars.
  6 Phaedo|             the true heaven and the true stars. Our earth is everywhere
  7 Phaedo|            something of the kind is true. He who has sought after
  8 Phaedo|         most of its heroes, but the true man is well aware that far
  9 Phaedo|            a mere illusion, and the true self neither soul nor body,
 10 Phaedo|        vindictively in another. The true argument from analogy is
 11 Phaedo|            say that God is just and true and loving, the author of
 12 Phaedo|          Him. It is a great part of true religion not to pretend
 13 Phaedo|            something of the kind is true.’ As in other passages (
 14 Phaedo|            life, that he has been a true mystic and not a mere retainer
 15 Phaedo|            details of his narrative true, but that something of the
 16 Phaedo|            something of the kind is true, we return from speculation
 17 Phaedo|           the hand of another.~Very true, said Cebes, laughing gently
 18 Phaedo|            reconcile this seemingly true belief that God is our guardian
 19 Phaedo|        explain. For I deem that the true votary of philosophy is
 20 Phaedo|             of that death which the true philosopher deserves, or
 21 Phaedo|          say?~I should say that the true philosopher would despise
 22 Phaedo|             turn to the soul.~Quite true.~In matters of this sort
 23 Phaedo|         communion of the body.~Very true.~Whereas, Simmias, the rest
 24 Phaedo|          good as dead.~That is also true.~What again shall we say
 25 Phaedo|          she is obviously deceived.~True.~Then must not true existence
 26 Phaedo|       deceived.~True.~Then must not true existence be revealed to
 27 Phaedo|       desire, but is aspiring after true being?~Certainly.~And in
 28 Phaedo|             and by herself?~That is true.~Well, but there is another
 29 Phaedo|     strength, and of the essence or true nature of everything. Has
 30 Phaedo|             attain the knowledge of true being?~What you say has
 31 Phaedo|       impede us in the search after true being: it fills us full
 32 Phaedo|           words, Simmias, which the true lovers of knowledge cannot
 33 Phaedo|             O my friend, if this is true, there is great reason to
 34 Phaedo|            chains of the body?~Very true, he said.~And this separation
 35 Phaedo|           be sure, he said.~And the true philosophers, and they only,
 36 Phaedo|             especial study?~That is true.~And, as I was saying at
 37 Phaedo|         upon them.~Clearly.~And the true philosophers, Simmias, are
 38 Phaedo|          them. And will he who is a true lover of wisdom, and is
 39 Phaedo|             O my friend, if he be a true philosopher. For he will
 40 Phaedo|          her purity. And if this be true, he would be very absurd,
 41 Phaedo|       general as a great evil.~Very true, he said.~And do not courageous
 42 Phaedo|        greater evils?~That is quite true.~Then all but the philosophers
 43 Phaedo|        surely a strange thing.~Very true.~And are not the temperate
 44 Phaedo|           Simmias, is there not one true coin for which all things
 45 Phaedo|             justice. And is not all true virtue the companion of
 46 Phaedo|            truth in her; but in the true exchange there is a purging
 47 Phaedo|           interpret the words, ‘the true philosophers.’ In the number
 48 Phaedo|      Socrates, that what you say is true. But surely it requires
 49 Phaedo|          any force or intelligence.~True, Cebes, said Socrates; and
 50 Phaedo|         from the dead. Now if it be true that the living come from
 51 Phaedo|            have to be adduced.~Very true, replied Cebes.~Then let
 52 Phaedo|           greater after being less.~True.~And that which becomes
 53 Phaedo|       swifter from the slower.~Very true.~And the worse is from the
 54 Phaedo|              Of course.~And is this true of all opposites? and are
 55 Phaedo|             the other of them?~Very true, he replied.~Well, and is
 56 Phaedo|             the opposite of waking?~True, he said.~And what is it?~
 57 Phaedo|            the world below?~That is true.~And one of the two processes
 58 Phaedo|          world of the living?~Quite true.~Then here is a new way
 59 Phaedo|            the living; and this, if true, affords a most certain
 60 Phaedo|     argument seems to be absolutely true.~Yes, he said, Cebes, it
 61 Phaedo|             simply recollection, if true, also necessarily implies
 62 Phaedo|           right way, he will give a true answer of himself, but how
 63 Phaedo|            some previous time.~Very true.~And what is the nature
 64 Phaedo|             the knowledge of a man?~True.~And yet what is the feeling
 65 Phaedo|          time and inattention.~Very true, he said.~Well; and may
 66 Phaedo|           be led to remember Cebes?~True.~Or you may also be led
 67 Phaedo|          which is recollected?~Very true, he said.~And shall we proceed
 68 Phaedo|            attained that idea?~Very true, he said.~Which might be
 69 Phaedo|           act of recollection?~Very true.~But what would you say
 70 Phaedo|          but fall short of it?~Very true.~And we recognize also that
 71 Phaedo|            we were born, I suppose?~True.~And if we acquired this
 72 Phaedo|          losing of knowledge?~Quite true, Socrates.~But if the knowledge
 73 Phaedo|           termed recollection?~Very true.~So much is clear—that when
 74 Phaedo|    recollection.~Yes, that is quite true, Socrates.~And which alternative,
 75 Phaedo|            and come to an end?~Very true, Simmias, said Cebes; about
 76 Phaedo|            to these questions.~Very true, he said.~Now the compound
 77 Phaedo|             we define as essence or true existence—whether essence
 78 Phaedo|          are not seen?~That is very true, he said.~Well, then, added
 79 Phaedo|            she touches change?~Very true.~But when returning into
 80 Phaedo|             is subject and servant?~True.~And which does the soul
 81 Phaedo|             It cannot.~But if it be true, then is not the body liable
 82 Phaedo|         passing to the place of the true Hades, which like her is
 83 Phaedo|           means that she has been a true disciple of philosophy;
 84 Phaedo|         compare Apol.). Is not this true, Cebes?~Yes, said Cebes,
 85 Phaedo|       wrought into her nature.~Very true.~And this corporeal element,
 86 Phaedo|          Simmias and Cebes, why the true votaries of philosophy abstain
 87 Phaedo|      invisible. And the soul of the true philosopher thinks that
 88 Phaedo|           the things of sight.~Very true.~And is not this the state
 89 Phaedo|             and believes that to be true which the body affirms to
 90 Phaedo|        which the body affirms to be true; and from agreeing with
 91 Phaedo|           and pure and simple.~Most true, Socrates, answered Cebes.~
 92 Phaedo|        Cebes, is the reason why the true lovers of knowledge are
 93 Phaedo| contemplation of her, beholding the true and divine (which is not
 94 Phaedo|           do not believe this to be true of them any more than of
 95 Phaedo|            and think him altogether true and sound and faithful,
 96 Phaedo|           would have taught him the true state of the case, that
 97 Phaedo|          believes an argument to be true which he afterwards imagines
 98 Phaedo|             and flow.~That is quite true, I said.~Yes, Phaedo, he
 99 Phaedo|         other which at first seemed true and then turned out to be
100 Phaedo|        hearers that what he says is true, I am rather seeking to
101 Phaedo|      argument. For if what I say is true, then I do well to be persuaded
102 Phaedo|         truly and fully harmonized.~True.~But does the soul admit
103 Phaedo|         completely a harmony?~Quite true.~And that which is not more
104 Phaedo|            more or less harmonized?~True.~And that which is not more
105 Phaedo|           said.~And can all this be true, think you? he said; for
106 Phaedo|             a harmony?~It cannot be true.~Once more, he said, what
107 Phaedo|            things of the body.~Very true.~But we have already acknowledged
108 Phaedo|           and contradict ourselves.~True, he said.~Thus much, said
109 Phaedo|            round; and whichever was true, he would proceed to explain
110 Phaedo|           forgetting to mention the true cause, which is, that the
111 Phaedo|             in the contemplation of true existence, I ought to be
112 Phaedo|              and then I affirmed as true whatever seemed to agree
113 Phaedo|     smallness the less become less?~True.~Then if a person were to
114 Phaedo|            in all these cases.~Very true, he said.~Again, would you
115 Phaedo|           say.~What you say is most true, said Simmias and Cebes,
116 Phaedo|           the greatness of Simmias?~True.~And if Phaedo exceeds him
117 Phaedo|      comparatively smaller?~That is true.~And therefore Simmias is
118 Phaedo|            that what I am saying is true.~Simmias assented.~I speak
119 Phaedo|       either retire or perish?~Very true, he replied.~And the fire
120 Phaedo|              fire and cold.~That is true, he said.~And in some cases
121 Phaedo|            by the name of odd?~Very true.~But is this the only thing
122 Phaedo|         while remaining three?~Very true, said Cebes.~And yet, he
123 Phaedo|         approach of opposites.~Very true, he said.~Suppose, he said,
124 Phaedo|             must also be odd.~Quite true.~And on this oddness, of
125 Phaedo|            odd is opposed the even?~True.~Then the idea of the even
126 Phaedo|        number three is uneven?~Very true.~To return then to my distinction
127 Phaedo|     remained and admitted the heat?~True, he said.~Again, if the
128 Phaedo|           and any other thing.~Very true.~And the same may be said
129 Phaedo|            all men, he said—that is true; and what is more, gods,
130 Phaedo|           preserved safe and sound?~True.~Then, Cebes, beyond question,
131 Phaedo|           any further enquiry.~Very true.~But then, O my friends,
132 Phaedo|          lower air collect. But the true earth is pure and situated
133 Phaedo|          world was the place of the true heaven and the true light
134 Phaedo|             the true heaven and the true light and the true earth.
135 Phaedo|          and the true light and the true earth. For our earth, and
136 Phaedo|             her mansions is exactly true. But I do say that, inasmuch
137 Phaedo|            something of the kind is true. The venture is a glorious