Quote #16

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, having sung all their life long, do then sing more lustily than ever, rejoicing in the thought that they are going to the god they serve.

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  1. Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death?
  2. False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.
  3. 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 sum…
  4. 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?
  5. The hour of departure has arrived, and we go our ways - I to die, and you to live. Which is better God only knows.
  6. When there is an income tax, the just man will pay more and the unjust less on the same amount of income.
  7. No evil can happen to a good man, neither in life nor after death.
  8. Mankind censure injustice fearing that they may be the victims of it, and not because they shrink from committing it.

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