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Do you not think so?”“Certainly that is very likely.”“And those who have chosen injustice and tyranny and robbery pass into the bodies of wolves and hawks and kites. Where else can we imagine that they go?”“Beyond a doubt,” said Cebes, “they pass into such creatures.”“Then,” said he, “it is clear where all the others go, each in accordance with its own habits?”“Yes,” said Cebes, “of course.”“Then,” said he, “the happiest of those, and those who go to the best place, are those who have practiced,
Plato. Plato in Twelve Volumes, Vol. 1 translated by Harold North Fowler; Introduction by W.R.M. Lamb. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1966.
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