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If I lack awareness, then why should I care what happens to me when I am dead?
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He was seized and dragged off to King Philip, and being asked who he was, replied, A spy upon your insatiable greed.
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Perdiccas threatened to put him to death unless he came to him, That's nothing wonderful, Diogenes said, for a beetle or a tarantula would do the same.
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