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Page 375
Nay , if this be true , let me die again and again . ... Above all , I shall then be able to continue my search into true and false knowledge ; as in this world , so also in the next ; and I shall find out who is wise , and who pretends ...
Nay , if this be true , let me die again and again . ... Above all , I shall then be able to continue my search into true and false knowledge ; as in this world , so also in the next ; and I shall find out who is wise , and who pretends ...
Page 381
For I deem that the true votary of philosophy is likely to be misunderstood by other men ; they do not perceive that he is always pursuing death and dying ; and if this be so , and he has had the desire of death all his life long ...
For I deem that the true votary of philosophy is likely to be misunderstood by other men ; they do not perceive that he is always pursuing death and dying ; and if this be so , and he has had the desire of death all his life long ...
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Very true . Whereas , Simmias , the rest of the world are of opinion that to him who has no sense of pleasure and no part in bodily pleasure , life is not worth having ; and that he who is indifferent about them is as good as dead .
Very true . Whereas , Simmias , the rest of the world are of opinion that to him who has no sense of pleasure and no part in bodily pleasure , life is not worth having ; and that he who is indifferent about them is as good as dead .
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Masterworks of World Literature, Volume 1 Masterworks of World Literature, Edwin Mallard Everett |
| Editor | Edwin Mallard Everett |
| Edition | revised |
| Publisher | Dryden Press, 1955 |
| Length | 1000 pages |
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