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Accordingly , the death of young men seems to me like putting out a great fire with a deluge of water ; but old men die like a fire going out because it has burnt down of its own nature without artificial means .
Accordingly , the death of young men seems to me like putting out a great fire with a deluge of water ; but old men die like a fire going out because it has burnt down of its own nature without artificial means .
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Death is by definition a state that excludes experi- ence . If you fear it , you fear a word . To all this , perhaps , Memmius , or some other recalcitrant reader , might retort that what he shrank from was not the metaphysical state of ...
Death is by definition a state that excludes experi- ence . If you fear it , you fear a word . To all this , perhaps , Memmius , or some other recalcitrant reader , might retort that what he shrank from was not the metaphysical state of ...
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self - contradictions of the will , would be the true means of mitigating the love of life ; and if the love of life were extinguished , the fear of death , like smoke rising from that fire , would have vanished also .
self - contradictions of the will , would be the true means of mitigating the love of life ; and if the love of life were extinguished , the fear of death , like smoke rising from that fire , would have vanished also .
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| Title | Gateway to the Great Books: Philosophical essays Volume 10 of Gateway to the Great Books, Robert Maynard Hutchins |
| Editors | Robert Maynard Hutchins, Mortimer Jerome Adler |
| Publisher | Encyclopędia Britannica, 1963 |
| Length | 644 pages |
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