should the one be preferred to the other, and hence there are not many things which are
unbegotten: for if there were some difference between them, you would not discover the
cause of the difference, though you searched for it; but after letting the mind ever wander
to infinity, you would at length, wearied out, take your stand on one Unbegotten, and say
that this is the Cause of all. Did such escape the observation of Plato and Pythagoras, those
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wise men,’ I said, ‘who have been as a wall and fortress of philosophy to us?’
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Chapter V.—The soul is not in its own nature immortal.