Note 065 Can the death of a good man be esteemed a punishment by those who believe in the immortality of the soul? They betray the instability of their faith. Yet as a mere philosopher, I cannot agree with the Greeks Ancient Greek

(Brunck, Poetae Gnomici, p. 231.)
See in Herodotus (l. i. c. 31) the moral and pleasing tale of the Argive youths.

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