Now, of all the benefits that virtue confers upon us, the contempt of death is one of the greatest, as the means that accommodates human life with a soft and easy tranquillity, and gives us a pure and pleasant taste of living, without which all other pleasure would be extinct.
Lazedemoniako mutiko soil batek azeri bat ebatsirik (nola beldurtzenago baitziren lapurketa zozo baten ahalkearen ezen ez gu halako baten zigorraren), kapapean ezarri zuen eta nahiago izan zuen sabela urra ziezaion bere buruaren salatzea baino.