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Sun Jan 31

From "Cicero's Tuscan Disputations"

  • V. A. To me death seems to be an evil.
  • M. What, to those who are al­ready dead? or to those who must die?
  • A. To both.
  • M. It is a mis­ery, then, be­cause an evil?
  • A. Cer­tain­ly.
  • M. Then those who have al­ready died, and those who have still got to die, are both mis­er­able?
  • A. So it ap­pears to me.
  • M. Then all are mis­er­able?
  • A. Ev­ery one.