Mortality and the brevity of life
idea · 2 works · 3 mentions · 3 anchored passages
mortality · death · frailty · mortal · the brevity of life · this breath of ours · while we draw breath
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1 expressionBrevity of life / mortality1 mention
Letters to Lucilius (Latin)
For is not this, my dear Lucilius, the madness, that no one of us reflects that he is mortal, that no one reflects that he is weak?
in the texts
Letters to Lucilius
The Stoic theme that human life is fragile, uncertain, and can end at any moment.
Let us daily balance our account with life.
" How foolish it is to plan out one's life, when one is not even master of the morrow!
The greatest fault of life is that it is always unfinished, that something of it is held over.
On Anger
The Stoic recognition that human life and breath are brief, used as grounds for renouncing anger and revenge and instead cultivating humane behavior
Soon we shall breathe out this breath of ours.
While we look back, as they say, and turn about, mortality will already be at hand.