I have seen an intimate friend of mine run headlong upon death with a real affection, and that was rooted in his heart by divers plausible arguments which he would never permit me to dispossess him of, and upon the first honourable occasion that offered itself to him, precipitate himself into it, without any manner of visible reason, with an obstinate and ardent desire of dying.
Ezer ez dago gizona baino bereizkoiagorik ez lagunkoiagorik: bata bizioz, bestea jitez. Uste dut Antistenesek ez ziola ongi ihardetsi gaiztoekin solastatzen zelako erantzuki egiten zionari, esanez medikuak erien erdian bizi ohi direla;