– Zeno of Citium
“No evil is honorable: but death is honorable; therefore death is not evil.”
“I cannot escape death, but at least I can escape the fear of it.”
– Epictetus
“Let each thing you would do, say, or intend, be like that of a dying person.”
– Marcus Aurelius
“It is not death that a man should fear, but rather he should fear never beginning to live.”
– Marcus Aurelius
“Let us prepare our minds as if we’d come to the very end of life. Let us postpone nothing. Let us balance life’s books each day. The one who puts the finishing touches on their life each day is never short of time.”
– Seneca
« Choose to die well while you can; wait too long, and it might become impossible to do so. »
– Gaius Musonius Rufus
“Don’t behave as if you are destined to live forever. What’s fated hangs over you. As long you live and while you can, become good now.”
– Marcus Aurelius
