Seneca the Younger on Death
Browse 6 quotations attributed to Seneca the Younger, catalogued under death, with dates where available.
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Attributed to Seneca the Younger, entry #183316: "There is no sorrow in the world, when we have escaped from the fear of death."
Attributed to Seneca the Younger, entry #132616: "No one ever saw Cato change, no matter how often the state changed: he kept himself the same in all circumstances—in the praetorship, in defeat, under accusation, in his province,…"
6 Quotes by Seneca the Younger on Death
"There is no sorrow in the world, when we have escaped from the fear of death."
"No one ever saw Cato change, no matter how often the state changed: he kept himself the same in all circumstances—in the praetorship, in defeat, under accusation, in his province, on the platform, in the army, in death."
"“All the Good of mortals is mortal."
"Pain he endures, death he awaits."
"Do you ask me whom I have conquered? Neither the Persians, nor the far-off Medes, nor any warlike race that lies beyond the Dahae; not these, but greed, ambition, and the fear of death that has conquered the conquerors of the world."
"“Of all these experiences that seem so frightful, none is insuperable. Separate trials have been over- come by many: fire by Mucius, crucifixion by Regulus, poison by Socrates, exile by Rutilius, and a sword-inflicted death by Cato; therefore, let us also overcome something."