The greatest task
If you have been able to examine and manage your own life you have achieved the greatest task of all.
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Because you are alive
You are not dying because you are ill: you are dying because you are alive.1 Seneca, Epist. moral., LXXVIII, 6 ↩
Because it must be lost
That is why I so order my ways that I can lose my life without regret, not however because it is troublesome or importunate but because one of its attribu...
Who suffers before he needs to
He who suffers before he needs to, suffers more than he needs to.1 Seneca, Epist. moral., XCVIII, 8. ↩
Everybody is acting a part
Most of our occupations are farcical: ‘Mundus universus exercet histrionem.’ [Everybody in the entire world is acting a part.]12 Petroniu...