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Socrates
I will tell you my own view. Please answer this question: Which is the stronger bond upon any living being to keep him in any one place, desire, or compulsion?
Hermogenes
Desire, Socrates, is much stronger.
Socrates
Then do you not believe there would be many fugitives from Hades, if he did not bind with the strongest bond those who go to him there?
Hermogenes
Of course there would.
Socrates
Apparently, then, if he binds them with the strongest bond, he binds them by some kind of desire, not by compulsion.
Hermogenes
Yes, that is plain.
Socrates
There are many desires, are there not?
Hermogenes
Yes.