Dialogue

 1 Phaedo|      Orphic tradition that the souls of the dead are in the world
 2 Phaedo|       a former state, then our souls must have existed and must
 3 Phaedo|     kite. And of these earthly souls the happiest are those who
 4 Phaedo|      is the river at which the souls of the dead await their
 5 Phaedo|    last obtain mercy. The pure souls also receive their reward,
 6 Phaedo|      of men are eternal, their souls are eternal, and if not
 7 Phaedo|        the ideas, then not the souls.’ Such an argument stands
 8 Phaedo|       the question whether the souls of men after death are or
 9 Phaedo|        from the dead, then our souls must exist in the other
10 Phaedo|      the inference is that our souls exist in the world below?~
11 Phaedo|    most certain proof that the souls of the dead exist in some
12 Phaedo|    from the dead, and that the souls of the dead are in existence,
13 Phaedo|   existence, and that the good souls have a better portion than
14 Phaedo|    Certainly.~But when did our souls acquire this knowledge?—
15 Phaedo|        Yes.~Then, Simmias, our souls must also have existed without
16 Phaedo|     inborn possession—then our souls must have had a prior existence,
17 Phaedo|      we were born, as that our souls existed before we were born;
18 Phaedo|        the ideas, then not the souls.~Yes, Socrates; I am convinced
19 Phaedo|       proven; to wit, that our souls existed before we were born:—
20 Phaedo|        and fears as to our own souls will turn upon the answers
21 Phaedo| certain ghostly apparitions of souls which have not departed
22 Phaedo|   Cebes; and these must be the souls, not of the good, but of
23 Phaedo|     have any care of their own souls, and do not merely live
24 Phaedo|       birth, but also that the souls of some exist, and will
25 Phaedo|       or of admitting into our souls the notion that there is
26 Phaedo|       least.~Yet surely of two souls, one is said to have intelligence
27 Phaedo|   argument holds?~Then, if all souls are equally by their nature
28 Phaedo|        equally by their nature souls, all souls of all living
29 Phaedo|        their nature souls, all souls of all living creatures
30 Phaedo|      and imperishable, and our souls will truly exist in another
31 Phaedo|       evil together with their souls. But now, inasmuch as the
32 Phaedo|      the place where the other souls are gathered, if she be
33 Phaedo|        the shores of which the souls of the many go when they