BY THEME
On Mortality
Memento mori — on time, on death, and on the brevity of the life we are given.
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Let us prepare our minds as if we'd come to the very end of life.
Letters 101.7
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Recall that nothing grieves us more than the loss of a friend close at hand.
Letters 63
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Count each day as a separate life.
Letters 101.10
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It is not possible to live well today unless one thinks of it as one's last.
Lectures 1
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He who lives through many years yet lies useless is a corpse of advanced age.
Fragments
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No evil is honorable; but death is honorable, therefore death is not an evil.
Fragment, in Diogenes Laertius 7.128
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Death is no more alarming than the noise of a door hinge.
Fragment, in Diogenes Laertius 7.21
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He was a bad man who said that time destroys all things.
via Plutarch, Life of Cato the Younger
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He who lives well cannot fear death.
Attributed via Plutarch
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Letters 22.17