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March 5, 2008

Being sentenced to death is a punishment. Not being told when you will die is torture that only a free man could bear.

Posted in Epiphany | Tagged Death, Epiphany, Punishment, Torture | 4 Comments »

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But let me tell you that to fear death, O men, is nothing other than to pretend being wise while not being ; it is indeed to pretend knowing things we don't know. Nobody indeed knows death [...] And isn't that quite shameful an ignorance, to suppose one knows things one doesn't know ? But as far as I am concerned, O men, it is probably in this that I differ from most human beings, and if I were to say that I am wiser than anybody, it is in that, not having an appropriate knowledge of the things that take place in Hades, I don't suppose I know it.

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