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 Posted: Sun Jul 24, 2016 5:50 pm Post subject: Stoic thoughts on death. |
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Been reading a book that is apparently by a stoic philosopher. Some of the thoughts resonated with me, particularly the ones about death. Here's some quotes I liked:
(Note: this book was a personal journal, so these are entries to himself and not to a reader)
| Quote: | | Just image the gods saying to you, "Tomorrow, you're going to die, or at the latest, the day after tomorrow." Are you going to make a big deal over the difference between tomorrow and the day after and start begging the gods for an extra day? Not unless you're a thorough-going coward. Really, what's the difference? Well then, take the same attitude toward living to be a ripe old age or dying tomorrow. |
| Quote: | It is but an ordinary coarse one, yet it is a good effectual
remedy against the fear of death, for a man to consider in his mind the examples of such, who greedily and covetously (as it were) did for a long time enjoy their lives. What have they got more, than they whose deaths have been untimely? Are not they themselves dead at the last? as Cadiciant's, Fabius, Julianus Lepidus, or any other who in their lifetime having buried many, were at the last buried themselves. The whole space of any man's life, is but little; and as little as it is, with what troubles, with what manner of dispositions, and in the society of how wretched a body must it be passed! Let it be therefore unto thee altogether as a matter of indifferency. For if thou shalt look backward; behold, what an infinite chaos of time doth present itself unto thee; and as infinite a chaos, if thou shalt look forward. In that which is so infinite, what difference can there be between that which liveth but three days, and that which liveth three ages? |
| Quote: | | He who fears death either fears the loss of sensation or a different kind of sensation. But if thou shalt have no sensation, neither wilt thou feel any harm; and if thou shalt acquire another kind of sensation, thou wilt be a different kind of living being and thou wilt not cease to live |
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