On the proper time to slip the cable
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Book Subtitle: Seneca's timeless letters of advice and wisdom.
Book Description: The second volume of Seneca's moral letters to Lucilius. Each letter contains Seneca's advice and wisdom won from a life of Roman politics.
17.
Would you be free from the restraint of your body?
Live in it as if you were about to leave it.
Keep thinking of the fact that some day you will be deprived of this tenure; then you will be more brave against the necessity of departing.
But how will a man take thought of his own end, if he craves all things without end?
Book: Moral Letters Vol II
Subtitle: Seneca's timeless letters of advice and wisdom.
Author: Seneca
Chapter: On the proper time to slip the cable
Location: Chapter 70, Section 17
Content:
17.
Would you be free from the restraint of your body?
Live in it as if you were about to leave it.
Keep thinking of the fact that some day you will be deprived of this tenure; then you will be more brave against the necessity of departing.
But how will a man take thought of his own end, if he craves all things without end?