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THE STORY OF PHILOSOPHY2 The Lives and Opinions

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<strong>THE</strong> <strong>STORY</strong> <strong>OF</strong> PHILOSOPHY<br />

the eager young, <strong>and</strong> find the intellectual love rf comrades For his<br />

studente loved him as he loved them; he was their fnend as well as their<br />

philosopher <strong>and</strong> guide. . . . , ,<br />

One of his pupils, facing that great abyss<br />

called marriage, invited the<br />

Master to his wedding feast. Plato came, rich with his eighty years, <strong>and</strong><br />

joined the But as the hours laughed themselves<br />

merry-makers gladly.<br />

away, the old philosopher retired into a quiet<br />

corner of the house <strong>and</strong><br />

sat down on a chair to win a little sleep. In the morning, when the feast<br />

was over, the tired revellers came to wake him. <strong>The</strong>y found that dunng<br />

the night, quietly <strong>and</strong> without ado, he had passed from a little sleep<br />

to an<br />

endless one. All Athens followed him to .the grave.

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