Quote #14

Man is a prisoner who has no right to open the door of his prison and run away...A man should wait, and not take his own life until God summons him.

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  1. The hour of departure has arrived, and we go our ways - I to die, and you to live. Which is better God only knows.
  2. Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death?
  3. No evil can happen to a good man, neither in life nor after death.
  4. Will you not allow that I have as much of the spirit of prophesy in me as the swans? For they, when they perceive that they must die, havin…
  5. Either death is a state of nothingness and utter unconsciousness, or, as men say, there is a change and migration of the soul from this wor…
  6. False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.
  7. The unexamined life is not worth living.
  8. But tell me, this physician of whom you were just speaking, is he a moneymaker, an earner of fees, or a healer of the sick?

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