The fear of death is indeed the pretence of wisdom, and not real wisdom, being the appearance of knowing the unknown.
What a poor appearance the tales of poets make when stripped of the colours which music puts upon them, and recited in simple prose.
It was Plato, according to Sosigenes, who set this as a problem for those concerned with these things, through what suppositions of uniform and ordered movements the appearances concerning the movements of the wandering heavenly bodies could be preserved.
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