16.
Have you anything worth waiting for?
Your very pleasures, which cause you to tarry and hold you back, have already been exhausted by you.
None of them is a novelty to you, and there is none that has not already become hateful because you are cloyed with it.
You know the taste of wine and cordials.
It makes no difference whether a hundred or a thousand measures pass through your bladder; you are nothing but a wine-strainer.
You are a connoisseur in the flavour of the oyster and of the mullet; your luxury has not left you anything untasted for the years that are to come; and yet these are the things from which you are torn away unwillingly.
Book: Moral Letters Vol II
Subtitle: Seneca's timeless letters of advice and wisdom.
Author: Seneca
Chapter: On taking one's own life
Location: Chapter 77, Section 16
Content:
16.
Have you anything worth waiting for?
Your very pleasures, which cause you to tarry and hold you back, have already been exhausted by you.
None of them is a novelty to you, and there is none that has not already become hateful because you are cloyed with it.
You know the taste of wine and cordials.
It makes no difference whether a hundred or a thousand measures pass through your bladder; you are nothing but a wine-strainer.
You are a connoisseur in the flavour of the oyster and of the mullet; your luxury has not left you anything untasted for the years that are to come; and yet these are the things from which you are torn away unwillingly.