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- No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.
- Plato (427 BC - 347 BC), Dialogues, Apology
- Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death?
- Plato (427 BC - 347 BC), Dialogues, Phaedo
- Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not.
- Epicurus (341 BC - 270 BC), from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers
- For certain is death for the born
And certain is birth for the dead; Therefore over the inevitable Thou shouldst not grieve. - Bhagavad Gita (250 BC - 250 AD), Chapter 2
- It is easy to go down into Hell; night and day, the gates of dark Death stand wide; but to climb back again, to retrace one's steps to the upper air - there's the rub, the task.
- Virgil (70 BC - 19 BC), Aeneid
- Death's brother, Sleep.
- Virgil (70 BC - 19 BC), Aeneid
- Pale Death with impartial tread beats at the poor man's cottage door and at the palaces of kings.
- Horace (65 BC - 8 BC), Odes
- It is not the rich man you should properly call happy, but him who knows how to use with wisdom the blessings of the gods, to endure hard poverty, and who fears dishonor worse than death, and is not afraid to die for cherished friends or fatherland.
- Horace (65 BC - 8 BC), Odes
- As men, we are all equal in the presence of death.
- Publilius Syrus (~100 BC), Maxims
- The fear of death is more to be dreaded than death itself.
- Publilius Syrus (~100 BC), Maxims
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