A god cannot procure death for himself, even if he wished it, which, so numerous are the evils of life, has been granted to man as our chief good. (Pliny the Elder)

A god cannot procure death for himself, even if he wished it, which, so numerous are the evils of life, has been granted to man as our chief good.

Pliny the Elder

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