You question me and, like a brutish thing,
I can reply only by these vain waters!
Cébès: You shall not escape me thus. Answer and I will question you. For you are my teacher and must answer me.
Answer! When a man dies does something still survive?
Tête-d'or: Be still, and try me no more.
Cébès: Answer! Is there an end of the personality? For as for the bodily form we know that it disappears.
Tête-d'or: I answer that man has been conceived according to the flesh.
Cébès: And to die is not to escape?
Tête-d'or: This world was made for man and a limit was set about him,
That he might not escape and that no one might enter in.