They counseled on the importance of reason
\nthe need to be aware of the fatal possibilities
\nparticularly pertinent to lives spent inciting dissent<\/p>\n
Socrates was inclined to ask questions
\nmen did not want to answer, in his words he was
\nas a gadfly to the thoroughbred of Athens<\/p>\n
and when his followers gave way to grief by
\nhis deathbed with the cup held aloft, he mocked them
\n\u2018What a way to behave, my strange friends!\u2019<\/p>\n
Three hundred years later Seneca cautioned against hope
\nthe loss thereof being so disturbing to peace of mind
\nPerhaps it was this that sustained him through three attempts to die<\/p>\n
\u2018What is not trouble when it arrives is an idle worry in anticipation\u2019 said Epicurus
\nof them all, he faced no death sentence
\nbut glutted on a diet of thought, friends and freedom<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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