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The people do not fear death; to what purpose
is it to (try to)
frighten them with death? If the people were always in awe of death,
and I could always seize those
who do wrong, and put them to death,
who would dare to do wrong?
There is always One who presides over the infliction
death. He who
would inflict death in the room of him who so presides over it may be
described as hewing wood instead
of a great carpenter. Seldom is it
that he who undertakes the hewing, instead of the great carpenter,
does not cut his
own hands!
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