Dialogue

 1 Phaedo|     and surely he cannot take better care of himself than they
 2 Phaedo|      and good, and perhaps to better friends; and he professes
 3 Phaedo|      harmony, why is one soul better than another? Are they more
 4 Phaedo|    soul. I thought that I had better return to the old and safe
 5 Phaedo|  trust again?’ But there is a better and higher spirit to be
 6 Phaedo|       should we have been any better than they? The worst of
 7 Phaedo|      death, or is there some ‘better thing reserved’ also for
 8 Phaedo| opposed to experience and had better be given up. The case of
 9 Phaedo|    and is capable of becoming better. And these germs of good
10 Phaedo|  trees when transplanted to a better soil. The differences between
11 Phaedo|       the fewer our words the better. At the approach of death
12 Phaedo| friends in heaven.’ But it is better to leave them in the hands
13 Phaedo|      remains to us, ‘and some better thing for the good than
14 Phaedo|      this question. And it is better to resign ourselves to the
15 Phaedo|  about to make. What can I do better in the interval between
16 Phaedo|        and why, when a man is better dead, he is not permitted
17 Phaedo|    set at liberty he can take better care of himself than the
18 Phaedo|      he may argue that he had better run away from his master,
19 Phaedo|       be ever with him who is better than himself. Now this,
20 Phaedo| lightly leave a master who is better than himself? And I rather
21 Phaedo|   this last) to men departed, better than those whom I leave
22 Phaedo|    been said of old, some far better thing for the good than
23 Phaedo|  convincing you by my defence better than I did the Athenian
24 Phaedo|     And the worse is from the better, and the more just is from
25 Phaedo|    that the good souls have a better portion than the evil.~Cebes
26 Phaedo|    nor money; for there is no better way of spending your money.
27 Phaedo|      you will not find others better able to make the search.~
28 Phaedo|      and let us have anything better which you can suggest; and
29 Phaedo|    not some one of you who is better able than myself answer
30 Phaedo|  before we answer him, we had better also hear what Cebes has
31 Phaedo|    believes that he will fare better in the world below than
32 Phaedo|      my eagerness to know the better and the worse.~What expectations
33 Phaedo| accordingly I have thought it better and more right to remain
34 Phaedo|       if I had not chosen the better and nobler part, instead
35 Phaedo|      And I thought that I had better have recourse to the world
36 Phaedo|     objection to make, he had better speak out, and not keep
37 Phaedo|        and I think that I had better repair to the bath first,