“The fear of death is the beginning of slavery.”
Source: The Golden Apple
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“It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.”
Marcus Aurelius, p. 225
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Why I Am An Agnostic (1929)
Source: Why I Am An Agnostic and Other Essays
The Socialist Party and the Working Class (1904)
Section 8 : Suffering and Consolation
Founding Address (1876), Life and Destiny (1913)
Context: It is written that the last enemy to be vanquished is death. We should begin early in life to vanquish this enemy by obliterating every trace of the fear of death from our minds. Then can we turn to life and fill the whole horizon of our souls with it, turn with added zest toall the serious tasks which it imposes and to the pure delights which here and there it affords.
“When annual elections end, there slavery begins.”
1770s, Thoughts on Government (1776)
“When annual elections end, there slavery begins. ”
“For it is not death or pain that is to be feared, but the fear of pain or death.”
Book II, ch. 1 http://classics.mit.edu/Epictetus/discourses.2.two.html
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Variant: For death or pain is not formidable, but the fear of pain or death.
“It is not death therefore that is burdensome, but the fear of death.”
De bono mortis, 8, 31.