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F his own sons conquerors there on the same day, approached the old man,
and congratulating him, said, "You should die now, Diagoras, for no
greater happiness can possibly await you." The Greeks look on these as
great things; perhaps they think too highly of them, or rather they did
so then. And so he who said this to Diagoras, looking on it as something
very glorious, that three men out of one family should have been
conquerors there, thought it could answer no purpose to him, to continue
any longer in life, where he could only be exposed to a reverse of
fortune. I might have given you a sufficient answer, as it seems to me,
on this point, in a few words, as you had allowed the dead were not
exposed to any positive evil; but I have spoken at greater length on the
subject for this reason, because this is our greatest consolation in the
losing and bewailing of our friends. For we ought to bear with
moderation any grief which arises from ourselves, or is endured on our
own account, lest we should seem to be too much influenced by self-love.
But should we suspect our departed friends to be under those evils,
which they are generally imagined to be and to be sensible of them, then
such a suspicion would give us intolerable pain; and accordingly I
wished, for my own sake, to pluck up this opinion by the roots, and on
that account I have been perhaps somewhat more prolix than was
necessary. XLVII. _A._ More prolix than was necessary? certainly not, in
my opinion. For I was induced by the former part of your speech, to wish
to die; but, by the latter, sometimes not to be unwilling, and at others
to be wholly indifferent about it. But the effect of your whole argument
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