Seneca the Younger - Death Quotes

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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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For we are mistaken when we look forward to death; the major portion of death has already passed. Whatever years be behind us are in death's hands.

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Anyone can stop a man's life, but no one his death; a thousand doors open on to it.

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Death is a release from and an end of all pains: beyond it our sufferings cannot extend: it restores us to the peaceful rest in which we lay before we were born. If anyone pities the dead, he ought also to pity those who have not been born.

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Mercy often means giving death, not life.

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Death is neither a good nor a bad thing, for that alone which is something can be a good or a bad thing: but that which is nothing, and reduces all things to nothing, does not hand us over to either fortune, because good and bad require some material to work upon. Fortune cannot take ahold of that which Nature has let go, nor can a man be unhappy if he is nothing.

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