Hippocrates
after curing many diseases himself fell sick and died. The Chaldaei
foretold the deaths of many, and then fate caught them too.
Alexander, and Pompeius, and Caius Caesar, after so often completely
destroying whole cities, and in battle cutting to pieces many ten
thousands of cavalry and infantry, themselves too at last departed
from life. Heraclitus, after so many speculations on the
conflagration of the universe, was filled with water internally and
died smeared all over with mud. And lice destroyed Democritus; and
other lice killed Socrates. What means all this? Thou hast embarked,
thou hast made the voyage, thou art come to shore; get out. If indeed
to another life, there is no want of gods, not even there. But if to
a state without sensation, thou wilt cease to be held by pains and
pleasures, and to be a slave to the vessel, which is as much inferior
as that which serves it is superior: for the one is intelligence and
deity; the other is earth and corruption.
(podcast episode) (original Greek)
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