Death
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"Those who urge the young to live well and the old to die well are nitwits. Not only because life is intrinsically valuable and worthy of being welcomed at all times, but also because the study of how to die well is one and the same with the study of how to live well" Letter to Pythocles: Appropriate Method, page 30 "Everything that is good or bad is in sense perception: but death is the cessation of sense perception. From which it follows that the correct belief is that death is of no significance and is non-existent. This makes life's mortality enjoyable -- not by adding an unlimited time span but by removing the frenzied yearning for immortality." Letter to Meneoceus: Death, page 50 "So death exists neither for those who are alive nor for those who have died. Yet the masses flee from death as if it were the gravest of evils. Many will chose death as a solution to the presumed evils and suffering of life. But one who is wise life is not afraid of being alive. Because life is not an encumberance or burden to him and he does not judge death to be an evil." Letter to Meneoceus: Death, page 51 |