The Unexamined Life Is Not Worth Living 1

The unexamined life is not worth living.

Life isn't worth living, unless it is lived for someone else.

“Death, therefore, the most awful of evils, is nothing to us, seeing that, when we are, death is not come, and, when death is come, we are not.”

“Our life is made by the death of others.”

“Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.”

“So death, the most terrifying of ills, is nothing to us, since so long as we exist, death is not with us; but when death comes, then we do not exist. It does not then concern either the living or the dead, since for the former it is not, and the latter are no more.”