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participating in virtue by habit1 and not by philosophy;
and one may perhaps say that a majority of those who were thus caught were
of the company that had come from heaven, inasmuch as they were unexercised
in suffering. But the most of those who came up from the earth, since they
had themselves suffered and seen the sufferings of others, did not make
their choice precipitately. For which reason also there was an interchange
of good and evil for most of the souls, as well as because of the chances of
the lot. Yet if at each return to the life of this world
1 Phaedo 82 B.
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