Plato Quotes About Death
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Only the dead have seen the end of war.
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I have good hope that there is something after death.
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Nothing in the affairs of men is worthy of great anxiety.
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No one knows whether death is really the greatest blessing a man can have, but they fear it is the greatest curse, as if they knew well.
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Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death?
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The fear of death is indeed the pretence of wisdom, and not real wisdom, being the appearance of knowing the unknown.
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Such, Echecrates, was the end of our comrade, who was, we may fairly say, of all those whom we knew in our time, the bravest and also the wisest and most upright man.
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Either death is a state of nothingness and utter consciousness, or, as men say, there is a change and migration of the soul from this world to another. Now if death be of such a nature, I say that to die is to gain; for eternity is then only a single night.
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We understand why children are afraid of darkness ... but why are men afraid of light?
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I am about to die, and that is the hour in which men are gifted with prophetic power.
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