Dies Quotes by Seneca the Younger

16 Dies quotes by Seneca the Younger

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Seneca’s stoic lens turns ordinary days into lessons of control and acceptance. In these 16 passages you’ll hear his calm admonition to make the most of the time we’re given.

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When you die, it will not be because you are sick, but because you were alive.

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Life without the courage to die is slavery.

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People do not die - they kill themselves.

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The man who can be compelled knows not how to die.

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Pleasure dies at the very moment when it charms us most.

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You will die not because you're ill, but because you're alive.

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It takes the whole of life to learn how to live, and - even more surprising - it takes the whole of…

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He who does not want to die should not want to live. For life is tendered to us with the proviso of…

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On him does death lie heavily, who, but too well known to all, dies to himself unknown.

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He is greedy of life who is not willing to die when the world is perishing around him.

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Death falls heavily on that man who, known too well to others, dies in ignorance of himself.

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Before old age I took care to live well; in old age I take care to die well; but to die well…

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One must take all one's life to learn how to leave, and what will perhaps make you wonder more, one must take…

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Rehearse death. To say this is to tell a person to rehearse his freedom. A person who has learned how to die…

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Throughout the whole of life one must continue to learn to live and what will amaze you even more, throughout life you…

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It was the saying of a great man, that if we could trace our descents, we should find all slaves to come…

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Leisure without study is death, and the grave of a living man.

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To rule yourself is the ultimate power

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The road by precepts is tedious, by example, short and efficacious.

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Misfortune is the test of a person's merit.

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He who does not want to die should not want to live. For life is tendered to us with the proviso of death. Life…

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