Sunday Morning Quotation

This is from the "father" of modern Western philosophy, Socrates (as reported by his student Plato):

"A man who is good for anything ought not to
calculate the chance of living or dying; he ought
only to consider whether in doing anything he
is doing right or wrong-- acting the part of a good
man or a bad.... For the fear of death is indeed the
pretense of wisdom, and not real wisdom, but
a pretense of knowing the unknown; and no
one knows whether death, which men in their
fear apprehend to be the greatest evil, may
not be the greatest good."