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as I am going to the other world, to tell stories about the life there and consider what we think about it; for what else could one do in the time between now and sunset?”“Why in the world do they say that it is not permitted to kill oneself, Socrates? I heard Philolaus, when he was living in our city, say the same thing you just said, and I have heard it from others, too, that one must not do this; but I never heard anyone say
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