Dialogue

 1 Phaedo|       to lose all distinctness. Philosophers have spoken of them as forms
 2 Phaedo| compared to that of some modern philosophers, who speak of eternity,
 3 Phaedo|     there have not been wanting philosophers of the idealist school who
 4 Phaedo|      our own age. For there are philosophers among ourselves who do not
 5 Phaedo|        truly you have described philosophers, and our people at home
 6 Phaedo|         say that the life which philosophers desire is in reality death,
 7 Phaedo|         In matters of this sort philosophers, above all other men, may
 8 Phaedo|  replied Simmias.~And when real philosophers consider all these things,
 9 Phaedo|     sure, he said.~And the true philosophers, and they only, are ever
10 Phaedo|     them.~Clearly.~And the true philosophers, Simmias, are always occupied
11 Phaedo|    quite true.~Then all but the philosophers are courageous only from
12 Phaedo|  interpret the words, ‘the true philosophers.’ In the number of whom,