The whole life of a philosopher, as Socrates said, is a preparation for death. For what else do we do when we withdraw the soul from pleasure, that is from the body, what else, I say, do we do but summon the soul to itself, force it to keep its own company, and separate it from the body?
To philosophize is to learn how to die. Not because philosophy is morbid, but because once you have faced death honestly, everything else becomes bearable.
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