book 1; 23-28# Thoughts - 思考者
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CHAP. 23.--WHAT WE ARE TO THINK OF THE
EXAMPLE OF CATO, WHO SLEW HIMSELF BECAUSE UNABLE TO ENDURE
CAESAR'S VICTORY.
Besides Lucretia, of whom enough has already been said, our
advocates of suicide have some difficulty in finding any
other prescriptive example,
unless it be that of Cato, who killed himself at Utica. His
example is appealed to, not because he was the only man who
did so, but because he was
so esteemed as a learned and excellent man, that it could
plausibly be maintained that what
EXAMPLE OF CATO, WHO SLEW HIMSELF BECAUSE UNABLE TO ENDURE
CAESAR'S VICTORY.
Besides Lucretia, of whom enough has already been said, our
advocates of suicide have some difficulty in finding any
other prescriptive example,
unless it be that of Cato, who killed himself at Utica. His
example is appealed to, not because he was the only man who
did so, but because he was
so esteemed as a learned and excellent man, that it could
plausibly be maintained that what