SENECA - College of Stoic Philosophers

EPISTLE LXXXII.
not easily tell you whether he who thought that
he was quenching the fear of death by setting
up this syllogism was the more foolish, or he who
attempted to refute it, just as if it had anything to
do with the matter ! For the refuter himself proposed
a counter-syllogism, based upon the proposition
that we regard death as " indifferent/' one of the
things which the Greeks call aSia