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It is better to die of hunger having lived without grief and fear, than to live with a troubled spirit, amid abundance

Epictetus, Thomas William Hazen Rolleston (189?). “The Teaching of Epictetus: Being the Encheiridion of Epictetus with Selections from the Dissertations and Fragments”, p.84, Library of Alexandria
It is better to die of hunger having lived without grief and fear, than to live with a troubled spirit, amid abundance