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>I have written this letter to you on a happy day to me, which is also the last day of my life. For I have been attacked by a painful inability to urinate, and also dysentery, so violent that nothing can be added to the violence of my sufferings. But the cheerfulness of my mind, which comes from the recollection of all my philosophical contemplation, counterbalances all these afflictions. And I beg you to take care of the children of Metrodorus, in a manner worthy of the devotion shown by the young man to me, and to philosophy.

>so violent that nothing can be added to the violence of my sufferings. But the cheerfulness of my mind,
>so violent that nothing can be added to the violence of my sufferings.
> But the cheerfulness of my mind,

>> No.15211149
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Like a boss

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>>15211149
I concur.

>> No.15211207

>>15211149
I agree this is up there with Hume for most based final days statements

>> No.15211225

>>15210937
>DUDE THE GREEKS WERE PEAK OF HUMAN CIVILIZATION
>*dies of something that modern medicine would fix with a minor surgery*
Lmao

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>>15211225