Dialogue

 1 Phaedo|   courageous because they are afraid of greater dangers, and
 2 Phaedo|       Laws; Republic.) ‘I was afraid,’ says Socrates, ‘that I
 3 Phaedo|      I was saying, if he were afraid of death.~He would, indeed,
 4 Phaedo|   face death because they are afraid of yet greater evils?~That
 5 Phaedo|    fear, and because they are afraid; and yet that a man should
 6 Phaedo|      pleasures which they are afraid of losing; and in their
 7 Phaedo|       must persuade not to be afraid when he is alone in the
 8 Phaedo| visible world, because she is afraid of the invisible and of
 9 Phaedo|   because they are themselves afraid of death, slanderously affirm
10 Phaedo|      So in my own case, I was afraid that my soul might be blinded
11 Phaedo|  which is small. You would be afraid to draw such an inference,
12 Phaedo|      like manner you would be afraid to say that ten exceeded