"A free man thinks of death least of all things; and his wisdom is a meditation not of death but of life."
-Baruch Spinoza
A free man thinks of death least of all things
Does that mean "a free person thinks that death is the worst of all things" or "a free person thinks less often about death than about any other thing"?
(The former doesn't seem to have that much to do with freedom, so I'm guessing he meant the latter... in which case I agree with him, but probably not in the way he intended: yes, we won't think about death very often once we're free from it.)
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