Five Dialogues

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• Let us reflect in this way, too, that there is good hope that death is a blessing, for it is one of two things: either the dead are nothing and have no perception of anything, or it is, as we are told, a change and a relocating for the soul from here to another place. If it is complete lack of perception, like a dreamless sleep, then death would be a great advantage. For I thinik that if one had to pick out that night during which a man slept soundly and did not dream, put beside it the other nights and days of his life, and then see how many days and nights had been better and more pleasant than that night, not only a private person but tthe great king would find them easy to count compared with the other days and nights. If death is like this I say it is an advantage, for all eternity wo... (查看原文)

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• The one aim for those who practice philosophy in the proper manner is to practice for dying and death. - but how shall we bury you? - In any way you like, if you can catch me and I do not escape you. (查看原文)

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