Man is a prisoner who has no right to open the door of his prison and run away.... A man should wait, and not take his own life until God summons hiom. (Plato)

Man is a prisoner who has no right to open the door of his prison and run away.... A man should wait, and not take his own life until God summons hiom.

Plato

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