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Quotation from Ethics by Baruch Spinoza
“PROP. LXVII. A free man thinks of death least of all things; and his wisdom is a meditation not of death but of life”
Ethics, Part IV, Prop. LXVII, trans. R. H. M. Elwes (1883)
A deliberate reversal of the Platonic and Stoic ideal of philosophy as preparation for death.
Citation: "PROP. LXVII. A free man thinks of death least of all things; and his wisdom is a meditation not of death but of life" — Baruch Spinoza, Ethics, Part IV, Prop. LXVII, trans. R. H. M. Elwes (1883). (id ethics-q11)
Portrait: Spinoza Ethica, Unknown, Public domain.
