“Less base the fear of death than fear of life.”
Source: Night-Thoughts (1742–1745), Night V, Line 441.
“Fear is death, fear is sin, fear is hell, fear is unrighteousness, fear is wrong life. All the negative thoughts and ideas that are in the world have proceeded from this evil spirit of fear.”
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Variant: dont be afraid of death, be afraid of the unlived life.
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(50–138) philosopher from Ancient Greece
Book II, ch. 1 http://classics.mit.edu/Epictetus/discourses.2.two.html
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VIII, 58
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(1835–1910) American author and humorist
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(1959) American artist
Death and the Eternal Forever (2014)
“He who fears not death fears not a threat.”
Qui ne craint point la mort ne craint point les menaces.
Don Gomès, act II, scene i.
Le Cid (1636)