Whereas a prolonged life is not necessarily better, a prolonged death is necessarily worse. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Death is a punishment to some, to others a gift and to many a favour. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
On him does death lie heavily, who, but too well known to all, dies to himself unknown. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Such is the blindness, nay the insanity of mankind, that some men are driven to death by the fear of it. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Just where death is expecting you is something we cannot know; so, for your part, expect him everywhere. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Tota vita nihil aliud quam ad mortem iter est. The whole of life is nothing but a journey to death. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
When you die, it will not be because you are sick, but because you were alive. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
He who does not want to die should not want to live. For life is tendered to us with the proviso of… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
The most miserable mortals are they that deliver themselves up to their palates, or to their lusts; the pleasure is short, and… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Every day, therefore, should be regulated as if it were the one that brings up the rear, the one that rounds out… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
It's unknown the place and uncertain the time where death awaits you; thus you must expect death to find you, every time,… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
You want to live-but do you know how to live? You are scared of dying-and, tell me, is the kind of life… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Rehearse death. To say this is to tell a person to rehearse his freedom. A person who has learned how to die… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
It takes the whole of life to learn how to live, and - even more surprising - it takes the whole of… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Death either destroys or unhusks us. If it means liberation, better things await us when our burden s gone: if destruction, nothing… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Death is the wish of some, the relief of many, and the end of all. It sets the slave at liberty, carries… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
There is nothing that Nature has made necessary which is more easy than death; we are longer a-coming into the world than… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
The evil which assails us is not in the localities we inhabit but in ourselves. We lack strength to endure the least… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Retirement without literary amusements is death itself, and a living tomb. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Refuse to let the thought of death bother you: nothing is grim when we have escaped that fear. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Death is sometimes a punishment, often a gift; to many it has been a favor. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Death: There's nothing bad about it at all except the thing that comes before it-the fear of it. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Go on and increase in valor, O boy! this is the path to immortality. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Anyone can stop a man's life, but no one his death; a thousand doors open on to it. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Death falls heavily on that man who, known too well to others, dies in ignorance of himself. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
We are wrong in looking forward to death: in great measure it's past already. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Virtue is that perfect good, which is the complement of a happy life; the only immortal thing that belongs to mortality. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
One must take all one's life to learn how to leave, and what will perhaps make you wonder more, one must take… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
There is nothing that we can properly call our own but our time, and yet everybody fools us out of it who has a… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share
Men trust rather to their eyes than to their ears; the effect of precepts is therefore slow and tedious, whilst that of examples is… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share
A great step towards independence is a good-humored stomach, one that is willing to endure rough treatment. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share
Men can be divided into 2 groups: one that goes ahead and achieves something, and one that comes after and criticizes. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share
Such as the chain of causes we call Fate, such is the chain of wishes: one links on to another; the whole man is… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share
He who does not want to die should not want to live. For life is tendered to us with the proviso of death. Life… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share
Let us not seek our disease out of ourselves; 'tis in us, and planted in our bowels; and the mere fact that we do… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share
Hesitation is the best cure for anger. The first blows of anger are heavy, but if it waits, it will think again. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share
