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The third is, that it is folly to wear one's self out with grief which can avail nothing.
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Supposing, then, each separate misfortune to occasion a separate additional grief, the whole would be too great to be supportable.
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Fear proceeds from the same things when absent which occasion grief when present.
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Affected of course I am by the loss of a friend as I think there will never be again, such as I can fearlessly say there never was before.
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This ripeness is so delightful to me, that, as I approach nearer to death, I seem as it were to be sighting land, and to be coming to port at last after a long voyage.
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As death, therefore, is hanging over our head every hour, how can a man ever be unshaken in soul if he fears it?
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Now, old age is as it were the playing out of the drama, the full fatigue of which we should shun, especially when we also feel that we have had more than enough of it.
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it was the virtue of the man that I loved, and that has not suffered death