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We understand why children are afraid of darkness ... but why are men afraid of light?

We understand why children are afraid of darkness ... but why are men afraid of light?

Plato
Death, Children, Men

Only the dead have seen the end of war.

Plato
Death, Memorial Day, Plato

Nothing in the affairs of men is worthy of great anxiety.

Plato
Life, Death, Wisdom

I have good hope that there is something after death.

Plato
Death, Plato, Dying

No one knows whether death is really the greatest blessing a man can have, but they fear it is the greatest curse, as if they knew well.

Plato
Death, Blessing, Men
Plato (1970). “Great dialogues of Plato”, Plume

I am about to die, and that is the hour in which men are gifted with prophetic power.

Plato
Death, Men, Hours
Plato, M. G. Epictetus (2010). “The Apology, Phaedo and Crito by Plato; The Golden Sayings by Epictetus; The Meditations by Marcus Aurelius”, p.26, Cosimo, Inc.

Either death is a state of nothingness and utter consciousness, or, as men say, there is a change and migration of the soul from this world to another. Now if death be of such a nature, I say that to die is to gain; for eternity is then only a single night.

Plato
Death, Night, Men
Plato (1947). “The Trial and Death of Socrates: Euthyphro, Apology, Crito and Phaedo”, p.44, Lulu.com

The fear of death is indeed the pretence of wisdom, and not real wisdom, being the appearance of knowing the unknown.

Plato
Death, Real, Knowing
Plato (2012). “The Trial and Death of Socrates: Four Dialogues”, p.30, Courier Corporation

Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death?

Plato
Death, Plato, Lasts

Such, Echecrates, was the end of our comrade, who was, we may fairly say, of all those whom we knew in our time, the bravest and also the wisest and most upright man.

Plato
Death, Men, Excellence
Phaedo 118a

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