Captivity preferred to death.
The wise and the foolish. · Wise and unwise conduct. · Choices. · Choice between evils. · view the constellation · filed as J217
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Filed under Choice between evils.
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Four choices, all of which are evil; man to make one choice onlyChoice: free poverty or enslaved wealthChoice: plainness with safety or grandeur with dangerChoice: loss of beauty or speech. Latter chosenChoice: suffering in youth or old agePresent evil preferred to change for worseChoice of deathsEnemies make peace rather than slay each otherChoice: small injustice permitted rather than to cause troubles of stateRescue alone from shipwreck chosen over drowning with goodsChoice between evils: pay tribute or lose both money and lifeChoice: apparent injustice over greater wrongDifficult choice between relativesDeath preferred to other evilsChoice between evils – miscellaneous