![]() SUMMARY Death comes even to the great peoples of history. 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. If indeed to another life, there is no want of gods, not even there. ![]() What means all this? Thou hast embarked, thou hast made the voyage, thou art come to shore get out. ![]() And lice destroyed Democritus and other lice killed Socrates. ![]() Heraclitus, after so many speculations on the conflagration of the universe, was filled with water internally and died smeared all over with mud. 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. ![]()
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