Philosophical dialogue · Dialogue · Philosophical literatureFalse words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.SocratesPlato, Phaedo · 360 BC★ 4.0
Philosophical dialogue · Dialogue · Philosophical literatureWill you not allow that I have as much of the spirit of prophecy in me as the swans? For they, when they perceive that they must die, having sung all their life long, do then sing more lustily than ever, rejoicing in the thought that they are going to the god they serve.SocratesPlato, Phaedo · 360 BC★ 3.9
Philosophical dialogue · Dialogue · Philosophical literatureThe partisan, when he is engaged in a dispute, cares nothing about the rights of the question, but is anxious only to convince his hearers of his own assertions.SocratesPlato, Phaedo · 360 BC★ 3.9
Philosophical dialogue · Dialogue · Philosophical literatureMust not all things at the last be swallowed up in death?SocratesPlato, Phaedo · 360 BC★ 2.4
Philosophical dialogue · Dialogue · Philosophical literatureMan is a prisoner who has no right to open the door of his prison and run away…a man should wait, and not take his own life until God summons him.SocratesPlato, Phaedo · 360 BC★ 2.3
Philosophical dialogue · Dialogue · Philosophical literatureCrito, I owe a cock to Asclepius; will you remember to pay the debt?SocratesPlato, Phaedo · 360 BC★ 1.5