"The stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires,
is like cutting off our feet when we want shoes."
JONATHAN SWIFT
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| Socrates' Death | ||||||||||||||
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When SOCRATES (469 - 399 b.c.) was asked, right before his drinking of the hemlock, what should be done with his body, he told the student, "Do with it what you like, provided you do not imagine it to be me." | ||||||||||||
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| "By all means, get married. If you get a good wife, you'll become happy; if you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher." | ||||||||||||||
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| POSTSCRIPT "The stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires, is like cutting off our feet when we want shoes." JONATHAN SWIFT |
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