Through his arguments Hegesias persuaded many of his listeners to starve themselves to death.
~Plutarch, On Affection for Offspring
There once came a cynic to Alexandria, who preached so compellingly of the evils of life and the virtue of death that following his fiery sermon the city fell witness to a conflagration that caught hold of the lives of many of its citizens--either dying by their own hand or those being fortunate enough to have died by the hand of a loved one.
There once came a cynic to Alexandria, who preached so compellingly of the evils of life and the virtue of death that following his fiery sermon the city fell witness to a conflagration that caught hold of the lives of many of its citizens--either dying by their own hand or the more fortunate who died from the hand of a loved one.
There once came a cynic to Alexandria, who preached so compellingly of the evils of life and the virtue of death that following his fiery sermon the city fell witness to a conflagration that caught hold of the lives of many of its citizens--each dying either by his own hand or from the gracious hand of a loved one.
NB: In the final iteration, I took fortune out but left fatality in because it really doesn't matter in the end.
