Dialogue

 1 Phaedo|      and temperate because they desire greater pleasures. But he
 2 Phaedo|     bodily pleasures—not from a desire of having more or greater
 3 Phaedo|        Pain soon overpowers the desire of life; old age, like the
 4 Phaedo|  vagabonds upon the earth.’ The desire of recognizing a lost mother
 5 Phaedo| describes, in a digression, the desire of the soul to fly away
 6 Phaedo|         And now, O my judges, I desire to prove to you that the
 7 Phaedo|       be so, and he has had the desire of death all his life long,
 8 Phaedo|         life which philosophers desire is in reality death, and
 9 Phaedo|         of the death which they desire.~And they are right, Simmias,
10 Phaedo|      she has no bodily sense or desire, but is aspiring after true
11 Phaedo|      the evils of the body, our desire will not be satisfied? and
12 Phaedo|       not be satisfied? and our desire is of the truth. For the
13 Phaedo|      attain the wisdom which we desire, and of which we say that
14 Phaedo|        with the soul, when this desire of theirs is granted, how
15 Phaedo|         of losing; and in their desire to keep them, they abstain
16 Phaedo|      Surely the proof which you desire has been already furnished.
17 Phaedo|       Cebes, I had a prodigious desire to know that department