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.
8.
Does a man bewail an event which he knew would take place?
Or, if he did not think of death as man’s lot, he has but cheated himself.
Does a man bewail an event which he has been admitting to be unavoidable?
Whoever complains about the death of anyone, is complaining that he was a man.
Everyone is bound by the same terms: he who is privileged to be born, is destined to die.
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 8
Content:
8.
Does a man bewail an event which he knew would take place?
Or, if he did not think of death as man’s lot, he has but cheated himself.
Does a man bewail an event which he has been admitting to be unavoidable?
Whoever complains about the death of anyone, is complaining that he was a man.
Everyone is bound by the same terms: he who is privileged to be born, is destined to die.