AS for death, if there be any gods, it is no grievous thing to leave the society of men.
The gods will do thee no hurt thou mayest be sure.
But if it be so that there be no gods, or that they
take no care of the world, why should I desire to
live in a world void of gods, and of all divine
providence?
HE that feareth Death, either feareth that he shall have no sense at all, or that his senses will not be the same. Whereas, he should rather comfort himself, that either no sense at all, and so no sense of evil; or if any sense, then another life, and so no death properly,
THOU must not in matter of death, carry thyself scornfully, but as one that is well pleased with it, as being one of those things that Nature hath appointed.
MARCUS AURELIUS. MEDITATIONS. Book ii. 8
HE that feareth Death, either feareth that he shall have no sense at all, or that his senses will not be the same. Whereas, he should rather comfort himself, that either no sense at all, and so no sense of evil; or if any sense, then another life, and so no death properly,
MARCUS AURELIUS. MEDITATIONS. Book viii. 55.
THOU must not in matter of death, carry thyself scornfully, but as one that is well pleased with it, as being one of those things that Nature hath appointed.
MARCUS AURELIUS. MEDITATIONS. Book ix. 3.
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