The gods created certain kinds of beings to replenish our bodies... they are the trees and the plants and the seeds.
PlatoTo go to the world below, having a soul which is like a vessel full of injustice, is the last and worst of all the evils.
PlatoEach living creature is said to be alive and to be the same individual - as for example someone is said to be the same person from when he is a child until he comes to be an old man. And yet, if he's called the same, that's despite the fact that he's never made up from the same things, but is always being renewed, and losing what he had before, whether it's hair, or flesh, or bones, or blood, in fact the whole body.
Plato