Thucydides History of the Peloponnesian War
Book IV, 4.17-[4]
History of the Peloponnesian War, Book IV
“You cannot avoid mortality. But you can choose your way of meeting it. And that is the most that any man can hope for.
Live well, my son.”
Source: The Man Who Folded Himself (1973), p. 114
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