“Homo liber de nulla re minus, quam de morte cogitat, et ejus sapientia non mortis, sed vitae meditatio est.”
A free man thinks of death least of all things; and his wisdom is a meditation not of death but of life.
Spinoza - Ethics, Part IV, Prop. LXVII
季路问事鬼神。子曰：‘未能事人，焉能事鬼？’‘敢问死。’曰：‘未知生，焉知死？’”（《论语·先进》）
The disciple Ji-Lu asked about serving the spirits, to which Confucius answered, "Before you know how to serve people, how can you serve spirits?" Ji-Lu asked again about death, to which Confucius answered, "I do not even understand life. How do I have time to understand death?".
- The Analects
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