Dialogue

 1 Phaedo|       he desires? Death is the separation of soul and body—and the
 2 Phaedo|     philosopher desires such a separation. He would like to be freed
 3 Phaedo|        repine when the hour of separation arrives? Why, if he is dead
 4 Phaedo|     her divine nature, and the separation from the body which has
 5 Phaedo|  analogy which assisted in the separation of soul and body. If ideas
 6 Phaedo| replied Simmias.~Is it not the separation of soul and body? And to
 7 Phaedo|        is purification but the separation of the soul from the body,
 8 Phaedo|        true, he said.~And this separation and release of the soul
 9 Phaedo|   release the soul. Is not the separation and release of the soul
10 Phaedo|      cause of two, in this the separation and subtraction of one from