Why should I fear death? If I am, death is not. If death is, I am not. Why should I fear that which can only exist when I do not?
Men are so thoughtless, nay, so mad, that some, through fear of death, force themselves to die.
It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men live in a city without walls.
Why should I fear death? If I am, then death is not. If Death is, then I am not. Why should I fear that which can only exist when I do not? Long time men lay oppressed with slavish fear. Religious tyranny did domineer. At length the mighty one of Greece Began to assent the liberty of man.
The wise man neither rejects life nor fears death... just as he does not necessarily choose the largest amount of food, but, rather, the pleasantest food, so he prefers not the longest time, but the most pleasant.
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