“ A good man is not prostrated at the loss of children or fortune. Neither is death terrible to him ”
Plato, The Republic. copy citation
Author | Plato |
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Source | The Republic |
Topic | loss death |
Date | |
Language | English |
Reference | |
Note | Translated by Benjamin Jowett |
Weblink | http://www.gutenberg.org/files/1497/1497-h/1497-h.htm |
Context
“As little can we admit the sorrows and sympathies of the Homeric heroes:—Achilles, the son of Thetis, in tears, throwing ashes on his head, or pacing up and down the sea-shore in distraction; or Priam, the cousin of the gods, crying aloud, rolling in the mire. A good man is not prostrated at the loss of children or fortune. Neither is death terrible to him; and therefore lamentations over the dead should not be practised by men of note; they should be the concern of inferior persons only, whether women or men. Still worse is the attribution of such weakness to the gods;”
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