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to fear death? Or
do you suppose that anyone could ever become brave who had that dread in his
heart?” “No indeed, I do not,” he replied.
“And again if he believes in the reality of the underworld and its
terrors,1 do
you think that any man will be fearless of death and in battle will prefer
death to defeat and slavery?” “By no means.”
“Then it seems we must exercise supervision2 also, in the matter of such tales as
these, over those who undertake to supply them and request them not to
dispraise in this undiscriminating fashion the life in Hades but rather
praise it,
Plato. Plato in Twelve Volumes, Vols. 5 & 6 translated by Paul Shorey. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1969.
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