The death of a loved one is not such terrible thing
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“‘A good person, we say, will suppose that for another like himself, even someone whose comrade he is, dying is not such a terrible thing.’
‘We do.’
‘In that case, he won’t grieve, at least for his comrade’s sake, as if something terrible had happened to him.’
‘He certainly won’t.’
‘But then we also say that a person like this is most self-sufficient, so far as concerns living a good life, setting the standard for others by being least reliant on another.’
‘True,’ he said.
‘Least terrible for him, then, to be deprived of a son, or a brother, or of money, or anything else like that.’
‘For him least of all.’
‘Then we’re saying that he also grieves least when any such misfortune befalls him, bearing it in the most even-tempered way.’
‘Yes, much the least.’
- Socrates talking to Plato’s brother Adeimantus in Plato’s Republic 387d-e
The death of a loved one is not such terrible thing
The death of a loved one is not such terrible thing
The death of a loved one is not such terrible thing
“‘A good person, we say, will suppose that for another like himself, even someone whose comrade he is, dying is not such a terrible thing.’
‘We do.’
‘In that case, he won’t grieve, at least for his comrade’s sake, as if something terrible had happened to him.’
‘He certainly won’t.’
‘But then we also say that a person like this is most self-sufficient, so far as concerns living a good life, setting the standard for others by being least reliant on another.’
‘True,’ he said.
‘Least terrible for him, then, to be deprived of a son, or a brother, or of money, or anything else like that.’
‘For him least of all.’
‘Then we’re saying that he also grieves least when any such misfortune befalls him, bearing it in the most even-tempered way.’
‘Yes, much the least.’
- Socrates talking to Plato’s brother Adeimantus in Plato’s Republic 387d-e