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Moral Letters Vol II

Seneca

§ Section 13

On the natural fear of death

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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.

13.

But, as I was going on to remark, you see that death in itself is neither an evil nor a good; Cato experienced death most honourably, Brutus most basely.

Everything, if you add virtue, assumes a glory which it did not possess before.

We speak of a sunny room, even though the same room is pitch-dark at night.