"I should not wonder if Euripides spoke the truth when he said, 'Who knows if life be death, and death be life?' And we perhaps are in reality dead. For I have heard from one of the wise that we are now dead, and that the body is our tomb (sema)..." Plato (Gorgias, 492e-493a)
"The soul is simply fastened and glued to the body and is forced to view things not directly but through its prison, as through a grating..." Plato (Phaedo, 82e)
"For the body is a source of endless trouble to us... It fills us full of loves, and lusts, and fears, and fancies of all kinds... The true philosopher is entirely concerned with the soul and not with the body. He would like, as far as he can, to get away from the body and to turn to the soul." Plato (Phaedo, 66c / 64e)
