Falsafa

Comma for either/or — dharma, courage. Spelling forgiving — corage finds courage.

    The Atlas·Events

    Suicide

    event · 2 works · 2 mentions · 2 anchored passages

    also in the atlas: Suicide the idea

    Cato's suicide · his last night · suicide · to seek death to escape troubles

    spoken of as

    1 expression

    Cato's death“suicide”1 mention

    On Providence (Latin)

    as on his last night he still pursued his studies;
    on providence

    in the texts

    Nicomachean EthicsClassical · Greek

    The act of seeking death to escape hardship, characterized as cowardice rather than courage.

    But to seek death in order to escape from poverty, or the pangs of love, or from pain or sorrow, is not the act of a courageous man, but rather of a coward;
    chapter 6

    On ProvidenceImperial · Latin

    Cato's self-inflicted death at Utica, narrated as an act of supreme virtue watched with special joy by the gods, who caused the wound to fail so it could be repeated.

    as on his last night he still pursued his studies;
    on providence
    it was not enough for the immortal gods to behold Cato once.
    on providence