“The fear of death is more to be dreaded than death itself.”
Publilio Siro Latin writer
Maxim 511
Sentences, The Moral Sayings of Publius Syrus, a Roman Slave
“More cruel than death itself, to die at that particular conjuncture!”
Letter 16, 6.
Letters, Book V
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