Anaxagoras said to a man who was grieving because he was dying in a foreign land, "The descent to Hades is the same from every place." (Diogenes Laërtius)

Anaxagoras said to a man who was grieving because he was dying in a foreign land, "The descent to Hades is the same from every place."

Diogenes Laërtius

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