Watching University challenge on TV last night with my Son (we like to have a little competition to see who can answer the most questions, we usually average around 12-18) A few questions came up on philosophy (his pet subject), some of which turned out to have Greek/Roman answers. Googling around this morning I came across this quote from Marcus Aurelius (a Stoic philosopher 121-180 AD) If you read it carefully you see that it's pretty much Pascal's Wager, simply from a slightly different perspective, and some 1,500 years earlier! Quite smart some of those Stoics.
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