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Fred Ayres
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“Nothing can harm a good man either in life or after death.' Socrates therefore has no fear of the court which is trying him. He will not stoop to dishonourable behaviour in order to win acquittal, for 'the difficulty is not so much to escape death; the real difficulty is to escape from doing wrong, which is far more fleet of foot'.”
— Jul 23, 2023 06:22AM
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Fred Ayres
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“as Wordsworth wrote in h Intimations of Immortality, 'our birth is but a sleep and, forgetting. Wordsworth was not particularly thinking about geometry, but he liked the general idea.”
— Jul 21, 2023 05:31AM
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Fred Ayres
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“to be afraid of death is only another form of thinking that one is wise when one is not
No one knows with regard to death whether it is really the greatest blessing that can happen to a man, but people dread it as though they were certain that it is the greatest evil, and this ignorance”
— Jul 21, 2023 04:21AM
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No one knows with regard to death whether it is really the greatest blessing that can happen to a man, but people dread it as though they were certain that it is the greatest evil, and this ignorance”
