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  • Socrates: Shouldn't we pray to the Gods here before we go?
  • Phaedrus: Of course.
  • Socrates: Dear Pan and all you Gods of this place, grant me that I may become beautiful within; and that what is in my possession outside me may be in friendly accord with what is inside. And may I count the wise man as rich; and may my pile of gold be of a size that no one but a man of moderate desires could bear or carry it. Do we need anything else, Phaedrus? For me that prayer is enough.
  • Phaedrus: Make it a prayer for me too; for what friends have they share.
  • Socrates: Let's go.
  • Socrates to Phaedrus at the end of Phaedrus by Plato

    Comment: Sounds very Buddhist of them !
 
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