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Apology of Socrates Let us reflect and we shall see that there is great reason to hope that death is a good; for one of two things — either death is a state of nothingness and utter(完全的) unconsciousness, or, as men say, there is a change and migration of the soul from this world to another. Now if you suppose that there is no consciousness, but a sleep like the sleep of him who is undisturbed even by dreams, death will be an unspeakable gain. For if a person were to select the night in which his sleep was undisturbed by dreams, and were to compare with this the other days and nights of his lif