But who are they that for no other reason but that they were weary of life have hastened their own fate? Were they not the next neighbors to wisdom? … - Erasmus

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But who are they that for no other reason but that they were weary of life have hastened their own fate? Were they not the next neighbors to wisdom? among whom, to say nothing of Diogenes, Xenocrates, Cato, Cassius, Brutus, that wise man Chiron, being offered immortality, chose rather to die than be troubled with the same thing always.