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" So that the man speaks but idly who says that he fears death not because it will be painful when it comes, but because it is painful in anticipation. For that which gives no trouble when it comes, is but an empty pain in anticipation. "
Life, Death, and Subjectivity: Moral Sources in Bioethics - Page 175
by Stan van Hooft - 2004 - 239 pages
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Epicurus

Alfred Edward Taylor - Philosophy - 1911 - 138 pages
...life for one who really comprehends that there is nothing terrible in not living. Hence he who says he fears death, not because it will be painful when it comes, but because our present assurance that it will come is painful, is a fool. It is but an idle pain that comes of...
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Greek Ethical Thought from Homer to the Stoics

Hilda Diana Oakeley - Philosophy - 1925 - 276 pages
...there is nothing in the beyond life. Therefore he is foolish who says that death should be feared, not because it will be painful when it comes, but because it is painful to look forward to; for it is rain to be grieved in anticipation of that which distresses us not when...
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Greek Ethical Thought from Homer to the Stoics

English literature - 1925 - 290 pages
...nothing in the beyond life. Therefore he is foolish who says that death should be feared, not hecause it will be painful when it comes, but because it is painful to look forward to; for it is vain to be grieved in anticipation of that which distresses us not when...
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Epicurus, the Extant Remains

Epicurus - Cosmology, Ancient - 1926 - 466 pages
...that there is nothing terrible in not living. 1 So that the man speaks but idly who says Nor is its that he fears death not because it will be painful when it ant'c'Pa'ion painful : comes, but because it is painful in anticipation. For that which gives no trouble...
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Texts & Pretexts: An Anthology with Commentaries

Aldous Huxley - Poetry - 1933 - 344 pages
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Ethical Theories: A Book of Readings

Abraham Irving Melden - Ethics - 1950 - 406 pages
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Great Traditions in Ethics: An Introduction

Ethel M. Albert, Theodore Cullom Denise, Sheldon Paul Peterfreund - Ethics - 1953 - 384 pages
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Hellenistic Religions: The Age of Syncretism

Frederick Clifton Grant - Greece - 1953 - 254 pages
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