On consolation to the bereaved
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Book Subtitle: Seneca's timeless letters of advice and wisdom.
Book Description: The final volume of Seneca's moral letters. Common Stoic themes emerge again and again: the unreliability of fortune, the ability to form Stoic resolve, and the importance of virtue.
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And I say that nothing can hurt him who is as naught; for if a man can be hurt, he is alive.
Do you think him to be badly off because he is no more, or because he still exists as somebody?
And yet no torment can come to him from the fact that he is no more—for what feeling can belong to one who does not exist?—nor from the fact that he exists; for he has escaped the greatest disadvantage that death has in it—namely, non-existence.
Book: Moral Letters Vol III
Subtitle: Seneca's timeless letters of advice and wisdom.
Author: Seneca
Chapter: On consolation to the bereaved
Location: Chapter 99, Section 30
Content:
30.
And I say that nothing can hurt him who is as naught; for if a man can be hurt, he is alive.
Do you think him to be badly off because he is no more, or because he still exists as somebody?
And yet no torment can come to him from the fact that he is no more—for what feeling can belong to one who does not exist?—nor from the fact that he exists; for he has escaped the greatest disadvantage that death has in it—namely, non-existence.