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“Is this always the case?”“Yes,” said he, “of course.”“Then if the soul takes possession of anything it always brings life to it?”“Certainly,” he said.“Is there anything that is the opposite of life?”“Yes,” said he.“What?”“Death.”“Now the soul, as we have agreed before, will never admit the opposite of that which it brings with it.”“Decidedly not,” said Cebes.“Then what do we now call that which does not admit the idea of the even?”“Uneven,” said he.“And those which do not admit justice and music?”
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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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