[PW] Quote on suicide

[S M Colowick]

Well, it doesn't mention soldiers, but here's a Platonic source that
quotes Socrates:

"The allegory which the mystics tell us--that we men are put in a sort
of guard post, from which one must not release oneself or run
away--seems to me to be a high doctrine with difficult implications."
- http://www.anselm.edu/homepage/dbanach/phaedo.htm

Now we just need to track down that mystical allegory . . .

smc

On Tue, Mar 4, 2008 at 2:14 AM, Sylvia Milne <sylviamilne at btinternet.com> wrote:
> I just looked up suicide in the Oxford Dictionary of Thematic Quotations,
>  edited by Susan Ratcliffe, OUP, 2000
>
>  I found
>
>  "Nor at all can tell
>  Whether I mean this day to end myself
>  Or lend an ear to Plato where he says
>  That men like soldiers may not quit the post
>  Allotted by the gods.
>
>  Alfred, Lord Tennison "Lucretius" (1868)
>
>  Now we just have to find the original Plato quotation
>
>  Sylvia Milne