But what occasion is there, when what I am laboring to prove is that no one is miserable after death, to make life more miserable by lamenting over it?
I have done that in the book which I wrote, in order to comfort myself as well as I could.

If, then, our inquiry is after truth, death withdraws us from evil, not from good.

This subject is indeed so copiously handled by Hegesias, the Cyrenaic philosopher, that he is said to have been forbidden by Ptolemy from delivering his lectures in the schools, because some who heard him made away with themselves.

There is, too, an epigram of Callimachus[20] on Cleombrotus of Ambracia, who, without any misfortune having befallen him, as he says, threw himself from a wall into the sea, after he had read a book of Plato's.

The book I mentioned of that Hegesias is called [Greek: Apokarterteron], or "A Man who starves himself," in which a man is represented as killing himself by starvation, till he is prevented by his friends, in reply to whom he reckons up all the miseries of human life.