BY THEME
On Mortality
Memento mori — on time, on death, and on the brevity of the life we are given.
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Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life.
Letters 101.10
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The life given us by nature is short; but the memory of a well-spent life is eternal.
On the Shortness of Life 15
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Discourses 4.1.165
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The judgement that we are about to die is not oppressive; dying is not oppressive.
Discourses 2.1
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We ought to count each day as a new life.
Fragments, after Seneca
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Fate permits us nothing more certain than death.
Consolation to Polybius 11.2
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You act like mortals in all that you fear, and like immortals in all that you desire.
On the Shortness of Life 3.4
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Practice death. To say this is to tell a person to rehearse his freedom.
Letters 26.8