Seneca the Younger Quotes About Death

• Death is the wish of some, the relief of many, and the end of all.

  Seneca the Younger

  Death, Philosophical, Wish

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

• The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity.

  Seneca the Younger

  Birthday, Tattoo, Death

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

• You want to live-but do you know how to live? You are scared of dying-and, tell me, is the kind of life you lead really any different from being dead?

  Seneca the Younger

  Life, Death, Kindness

• The worst evil of all is to leave the ranks of the living before one dies.

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  Death, Evil, Dying

• 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 do not know how to die.

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  Inspirational, Life, Death

• 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 die. Seneca (Roman philosopher)

  Seneca the Younger

  Death, Philosopher, Whole

• Death is a release from and an end of all pains.

  Seneca the Younger

  Death, Pain, Release

  "Of Consolation to Marcia". Book by Seneca the Younger, 1635.

• 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 to learn how to die.

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  Death, Dying, Wonder

• What need is there to weep over parts of life? The whole of it calls for tears.

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  Life, Death, Wise

  "Moral Essays: Ad Marciam De Consolatione". Translated by J. W. Basore,

• Death is a punishment to some, to others a gift and to many a favour.

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  Death, Suicidal, Punishment

• There is nothing after death, and death itself is nothing.

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  Death, After Death

• 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 moment, but we have been a long time on the way.

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  Death, Long, Dying

• 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 the way to this destination.

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  Death, Doe, Want

• 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 at your death will be proportioned to what you leave him.

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  Death, Men, Joy

• Our care should not be to have lived long as to have lived enough.

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  Life, Happiness, Death

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

• Death is sometimes a punishment, often a gift; to many it has been a favor.

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  Death, Punishment, Favors

• 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 it; and there is not any minute of our lives wherein we may not reasonably expect it. Nay, it is but a momen'ts work, the parting of soul and body. What a shame is it then to stand in fear of anything so long that is over so soon!

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  Death, Soul And Body, Long

• 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 lives.

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  Life, Death, Should

• Just where death is expecting you is something we cannot know; so, for your part, expect him everywhere.

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  Death, Justice, Expecting

• Leisure without literature is death and burial alive.

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  Death, Alive, Literature

• Rehearse death. To say this is to tell a person to rehearse his freedom. A person who has learned how to die has unlearned how to be a slave. He is above, or at any rate, beyond the reach of, all political powers.

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  Death, Freedom, Political

• Consider, when you are enraged at any one, what you would probably think if he should die during the dispute.

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  Death, Anger, Philosophical

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

• Death's the discharge of our debt of sorrow.

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  Death, Sorrow, Debt

• Death is the wish of some, the relief of many, and the end of all. It sets the slave at liberty, carries the banished man home, and places all mortals on the same level, insomuch that life itself were a punishment without it.

  Seneca the Younger

  Death, Home, Men

• The most happy ought to wish for death.

  Seneca the Younger

  Death, Wish, Ought

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