Plato Quotes on death

The true lover of learning then must his earliest youth, as far as in him lies, desire all truth... He whose desires are drawn toward knowledge in every form will be absorbed in the pleasures of the soul, and will hardly feel bodily pleasures I mean, if he be a true philosopher and not a sham one... Then how can he who has the magnificence of mind and is the spectator of all times and all existence, think much of human life He cannot. Or can such a one account death fearful No indeed.

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And now I depart hence condemned by you to suffer the penalty of death, and they, too, go their ways condemned by the truth to suffer the penalty of villainy and wrong; and I must abide by my award - let them abide by theirs.

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[T]hose who practice philosophy in the right way are in training for dying and they fear death least of all men.

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No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.

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Either death is a state of nothingness and utter unconsciousness, or, as men say, there is a change and migration of the soul from this world to another.. Now if death be of such a nature, I say that to die is to gain; for eternity is then only a single night.

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Can any man be courageous who has the fear of death in him?

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