“We admitted that everything living is born of the dead. For if the soul existed before birth, and in coming to life and being born can be born only from death and dying, must she not after death continue to exist, since she has to be born again?”

—  Socrates

Plato, Phaedo

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classical Greek Athenian philosopher -470–-399 BC

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