Dialogue

 1 Phaedo|       Simmias and Cebes that these arguments only prove a former and
 2 Phaedo|         melancholy reflection that arguments, like men, are apt to be
 3 Phaedo|         become distrustful both of arguments and of friends. But this
 4 Phaedo|         haters of men or haters of arguments. The want of health and
 5 Phaedo|        consider the numberless bad arguments which have been pressed
 6 Phaedo|         become misologists because arguments are apt to be deceivers.~
 7 Phaedo|         has been supposed to rest. Arguments derived from material things
 8 Phaedo|         not ‘in pari materia’ with arguments from the visible to the
 9 Phaedo|            must be proved by other arguments than these if it is again
10 Phaedo|            or have mistaken verbal arguments for real ones.~5. Again,
11 Phaedo|           too, we may adduce other arguments in which he seems to have
12 Phaedo|           To deal fairly with such arguments, they should be translated
13 Phaedo|            common feeling.~20. Two arguments of this ethical character
14 Phaedo|            the depreciation of the arguments with which ‘he comforted
15 Phaedo|         than could be derived from arguments that such a one has in him ‘
16 Phaedo|           sight. The succession of arguments is based on previous philosophies;
17 Phaedo|  immortality than he is of his own arguments; and the confidence which
18 Phaedo|        more divinely consoled. The arguments, taken in the spirit and
19 Phaedo|         not in the letter, are our arguments; and Socrates by anticipation
20 Phaedo|         this is not so, then other arguments will have to be adduced.~
21 Phaedo|         Simmias, interposing, what arguments are urged in favour of this
22 Phaedo|       Socrates, if you put the two arguments together—I mean this and
23 Phaedo|           although in this respect arguments are unlike men—there I was
24 Phaedo| unsoundness and instability of all arguments, or indeed, of all things,
25 Phaedo|          the blame from himself to arguments in general: and for ever
26 Phaedo|         health or soundness in any arguments at all. Rather say that
27 Phaedo|           know too well that these arguments from probabilities are impostors,