Dialogue

 1 Phaedo|          mind is the cause of all things. And he said to himself:
 2 Phaedo|          mind is the cause of all things, surely mind must dispose
 3 Phaedo|    contemplation of the nature of things, as there is a danger in
 4 Phaedo|         small, and so on of other things. This is a safe and simple
 5 Phaedo|      opposites themselves, but of things which are inseparable from
 6 Phaedo|   Arguments derived from material things such as the seed and the
 7 Phaedo|         from analogies of outward things which may serve to embody
 8 Phaedo|   reckoned in earthly or material things. The human being alone has
 9 Phaedo|         he desires that all other things should be as like himself
10 Phaedo|           must ever prevail about things unseen, the hope of immortality
11 Phaedo|    acknowledge that these are the things which eye hath not seen
12 Phaedo|     between the opposites and the things which have the opposites,
13 Phaedo|           leave the world and the things of the world, and to find
14 Phaedo|            but he loves above all things to hear and speak of Socrates
15 Phaedo|          to him by facts that all things are for the best, and that
16 Phaedo|        you wonder why, when other things which are evil may be good
17 Phaedo|         herself and none of these things trouble her—neither sounds
18 Phaedo|   philosophers consider all these things, will they not be led to
19 Phaedo|       soul in herself must behold things in themselves: and then
20 Phaedo|        pure knowledge, one of two things follows—either knowledge
21 Phaedo|           true coin for which all things ought to be exchanged?—and
22 Phaedo|         purging away of all these things, and temperance, and justice,
23 Phaedo|        the probabilities of these things?~I am sure, said Cebes,
24 Phaedo|       will be easier. Are not all things which have opposites generated
25 Phaedo|      their opposites? I mean such things as good and evil, just and
26 Phaedo|       universal opposition of all things, are there not also two
27 Phaedo|          Then the living, whether things or persons, Cebes, are generated
28 Phaedo|            then you know that all things would at last have the same
29 Phaedo|        meaning, because all other things would be asleep, too, and
30 Phaedo|     manner, my dear Cebes, if all things which partook of life were
31 Phaedo|      living spring from any other things, and they too die, must
32 Phaedo|        they too die, must not all things at last be swallowed up
33 Phaedo|  recollection may be derived from things either like or unlike?~It
34 Phaedo| recollection is derived from like things, then another consideration
35 Phaedo|        see equalities of material things, such as pieces of wood
36 Phaedo|       knowledge that all sensible things aim at an absolute equality
37 Phaedo|           or did we recollect the things which we knew previously
38 Phaedo|           that all men know these things?~Certainly not.~They are
39 Phaedo|           absolute essence of all things; and if to this, which is
40 Phaedo|          or garments or any other things which are named by the same
41 Phaedo|        senses, but the unchanging things you can only perceive with
42 Phaedo|    subject to variation; for such things are visible and tangible,
43 Phaedo|           so, they are really the things of sight.~Very true.~And
44 Phaedo|           and anticipate the good things of another world, wherefore
45 Phaedo|           has achieved one of two things: either he should discover,
46 Phaedo|      arguments, or indeed, of all things, which, like the currents
47 Phaedo|         in geometry, and in other things too. But the doctrine of
48 Phaedo|     opposition of the soul to the things of the body.~Very true.~
49 Phaedo|     nature; to know the causes of things, and why a thing is and
50 Phaedo|          of them, and then to the things of heaven and earth, and
51 Phaedo|        that my eyes grew blind to things which I had seemed to myself,
52 Phaedo|         altogether if I looked at things with my eyes or tried to
53 Phaedo|           by beauty all beautiful things become beautiful. This appears
54 Phaedo|          That by beauty beautiful things become beautiful. Do you
55 Phaedo|           by greatness only great things become great and greater
56 Phaedo|       ideas exist, and that other things participate in them and
57 Phaedo|       instead of this, one of two things will happen, either the
58 Phaedo|       friend, we were speaking of things in which opposites are inherent
59 Phaedo|          odd? Are there not other things which have their own name,
60 Phaedo|        another, but also concrete things, which, although not in
61 Phaedo|         Cebes, such as compel the things of which they have possession,
62 Phaedo|         that you know, that those things which are possessed by the
63 Phaedo|          cause of them: and so of things in general, as I dare say
64 Phaedo|       corroded, as in the sea all things are corroded by the brine,
65 Phaedo|           whole earth, and of the things which are around the earth;
66 Phaedo|         Simmias, seeing all these things, what ought not we to do