SOCRATES

To fear death,my friends,is only to think

ourselves wise,without being wise:for it is to

think that we know what we do not know. For

anything that men can tell, death maybe the

greatest good that can happen to them;but they

fear it as if they knew quite well that it was the

greatest of evils. And what is this but that

shameful ignorance of thinking that we

know what we do not know?

SOCRATES(469-399 B.C.)