Dialogue

 1 Phaedo|       Socrates.’ ‘Why, is he not a philosopher?’ ‘Yes.’ ‘Then he will be
 2 Phaedo|          convincing the court.~The philosopher desires death—which the
 3 Phaedo|           of soul and body—and the philosopher desires such a separation.
 4 Phaedo|           her purity?~Besides, the philosopher has notions of good and
 5 Phaedo|      Republic, Meno.) But only the philosopher who departs pure is permitted
 6 Phaedo|           or Christian mystic, the philosopher is seeking to withdraw from
 7 Phaedo|        children indicates that the philosopher is not ‘made of oak or rock.’
 8 Phaedo|          Philolaus the Pythagorean philosopher of Thebes. Simmias is described
 9 Phaedo|          Socrates,—is not Evenus a philosopher?~I think that he is, said
10 Phaedo|         his own life, but that the philosopher will be ready to follow
11 Phaedo|        just now attributing to the philosopher? That the wisest of men
12 Phaedo|         prove to you that the real philosopher has reason to be of good
13 Phaedo|          that death which the true philosopher deserves, or how he deserves
14 Phaedo|          agree about it:—Ought the philosopher to care about the pleasures—
15 Phaedo|           should say that the true philosopher would despise them.~Would
16 Phaedo|         Certainly.~And in this the philosopher dishonours the body; his
17 Phaedo|            friend, if he be a true philosopher. For he will have a firm
18 Phaedo|    specially characteristic of the philosopher?~Certainly.~There is temperance
19 Phaedo|           And the soul of the true philosopher thinks that she ought not
20 Phaedo|       Certainly not! The soul of a philosopher will reason in quite another
21 Phaedo|           have not the temper of a philosopher; like the vulgar, I am only
22 Phaedo| imperishable and immortal, and the philosopher who is confident in death
23 Phaedo|            I proceeded, I found my philosopher altogether forsaking mind
24 Phaedo|       ideas. But you, if you are a philosopher, will certainly do as I