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Moral Letters Vol II

Seneca

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On taking one's own life

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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.

10.

This little anecdote into which I have digressed will not be displeasing to you.

For you will see that your friend departed neither with difficulty nor with suffering.

Though he committed suicide, yet he withdrew most gently, gliding out of life.

The anecdote may also be of some use; for often a crisis demands just such examples.

There are times when we ought to die and are unwilling; sometimes we die and are unwilling.