Where death waits for us is uncertain; let us look for him everywhere.… — Essays
SAPIR 861
Where death waits for us is uncertain; let us look for him everywhere. The premeditation of death is the premeditation of liberty; he who has learned to die has unlearned to serve. There is nothing evil in life for him who rightly comprehends that the privation of life is no evil: to know, how to die delivers us from all subjection and constraint. Paulus Emilius answered him whom the miserable King of Macedon, his prisoner, sent to entreat him that he would not lead him in his triumph, "Let him make that request to himself."--[ Plutarch, Life of Paulus Aemilius, c. 17; Cicero, Tusc., v. 40.]
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