“There are few things easier than to live badly and to die well.”
Oscar Wilde Vera; or, The Nihilists
Vera; or, The Nihilists (1880)
“It is more necessary for the soul to be cured than the body; for it is better to die than to live badly.”
Fragment xxxii.
Golden Sayings of Epictetus, Fragments
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