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Death Quotes by Seneca the Younger
- Leisure without literature is death and burial alive.
- Just as I shall select my ship when I am about to go on a voyage, or my house when I propose to take a…
- Death is a punishment to some, to others a gift and to many a favour.
- Whereas a prolonged life is not necessarily better, a prolonged death is necessarily worse.
- What need is there to weep over parts of life? The whole of it calls for tears.
- The worst evil of all is to leave the ranks of the living before one dies.
- One must take all one's life to learn how to leave, and what will perhaps make you wonder more, one must take all one's life…
- Death is sometimes a punishment, often a gift; to many it has been a favor.
- There is nothing that Nature has made necessary which is more easy than death; we are longer a-coming into the world than going out of…
- Death: There's nothing bad about it at all except the thing that comes before it-the fear of it.
- Refuse to let the thought of death bother you: nothing is grim when we have escaped that fear.
- Every day, therefore, should be regulated as if it were the one that brings up the rear, the one that rounds out and completes our…
- Just where death is expecting you is something we cannot know; so, for your part, expect him everywhere.
- Death is the wish of some, the relief of many, and the end of all.
- The final hour when we cease to exist does not itself bring death; it merely of itself completes the death-process. We reach death at that…
- Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.
- He who does not want to die should not want to live. For life is tendered to us with the proviso of death. Life is…
- Anyone can stop a man's life, but no one his death; a thousand doors open on to it.
- Most men ebb and flow in wretchedness between the fear of death and the hardship of life; they are unwilling to live, and yet they…
- What madness it is for a man to starve himself to enrich his heir, and so turn a friend into an enemy! For his joy…
- Leisure without literature is death, or rather the burial of a living man -Otium sine litteris mors est et hominis vivi sepultura
- On him does death lie heavily, who, but too well known to all, dies to himself unknown.
- Throughout the whole of life one must continue to learn to live and what will amaze you even more, throughout life you must learn to…
- A man afraid of death will never play the part of a live man.
- Life without the courage for death is slavery.
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