Dialogue

 1 Phaedo|   Republic.) ‘I was afraid,’ says Socrates, ‘that I might
 2 Phaedo|      I use the illustration, says Socrates, because I want
 3 Phaedo|     writings of Plato, which says that first principles should
 4 Phaedo|     material. As Goethe also says, ‘He is dead even in this
 5 Phaedo|    difficulty which Socrates says that he experienced in explaining
 6 Phaedo|    to talk much, talking, he says, increases heat, and this
 7 Phaedo| excels the body. Well, then, says the argument to me, why
 8 Phaedo|     after his death somebody says:—He is not dead, he must
 9 Phaedo|     his hearers that what he says is true, I am rather seeking
10 Phaedo|     alleged; and if a person says to me that the bloom of
11 Phaedo|     to start, as the proverb says, at my own shadow, I cannot
12 Phaedo|   world is not, as Aeschylus says in the Telephus, a single
13 Phaedo|    account. We must do as he says, Crito; and therefore let