This, then, is consistent with the character of a reflecting man--to be neither careless nor impatient nor contemptuous with respect to death, but to wait for it as one of the operations of nature.
From his personal reflections, defining the appropriate philosophical stance towards death.
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But intellect in a peculiar manner tends to that which is of the same kin, and combines with it, and the feeling for communion is not interrupted.
But if it is easy to set little value on all these things, turn to that which remains, which is to follow reason and God.
But it is inconsistent with honoring reason and God to be troubled because by death a man will be deprived of the other things.
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