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Socrates
Soc. Then if we are right about that, let us consider a further question.
Protarchus
Pro. What is it?
Socrates
Soc. Whether this is an inevitable experience in relation to the present and the past, but not in relation to the future.
Protarchus
Pro. It is in the same relation to all kinds of time.
Socrates
Soc. Was it not said a while ago that the pleasures and pains which belong to the soul alone might come before the pleasures and pains of the body, so that we have the pleasure and pain of anticipation, which relate to the future?
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Protarchus
Pro. Very true.
Socrates
Soc. Do the writings and pictures, then, which we imagined a little while ago to exist within us, relate to the past and present, but not to the future?
Protarchus
Pro. To the future especially.
Socrates
Soc. Do you say to the future especially because they are all hopes relating to the future and we are always filled with hopes all our lives?
Protarchus
Pro. Precisely.
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Socrates
Soc. Well, here is a further question for you to answer.
Protarchus
Pro. What is it?
Socrates
Soc. A just, pious, and good man is surely a friend of the gods, is he not?
Protarchus
Pro. Certainly.
Socrates
Soc. And an unjust and thoroughly bad man is the reverse?
Protarchus
Pro. Of course.
Socrates
Soc. But, as we were just now saying, every man is full of many hopes?
Protarchus
Pro. Yes, to be sure.
Socrates
Soc. And there are in all of us written words which we call hopes?
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