BY THEME
On Mortality
Memento mori — on time, on death, and on the brevity of the life we are given.
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He who fears death will never do anything worthy of a living man.
Letters from a Stoic
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Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life.
Letters from a Stoic 101
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You could leave life right now. Let that determine what you do and say and think.
Meditations 2.11
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Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature's delight.
Meditations 9.35
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Do every act of your life as if it were your last.
Meditations 2.5
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While we are postponing, life speeds by.
Letters from a Stoic 1.1
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Life is long if you know how to use it.
On the Shortness of Life 1
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The whole future lies in uncertainty: live immediately.
On the Shortness of Life 9
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It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.
Meditations
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Death smiles at us all; all a man can do is smile back.
Meditations (attrib.)