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Being asked why the best of men prefer a glorious death to an inglorious life, he said, ‘Because they believe the one to be Nature's gift but the other to be within their own control.’
Plutarch. Moralia. with an English Translation by. Frank Cole Babbitt. Cambridge, MA. Harvard University Press. London. William Heinemann Ltd. 1931. 3.
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