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Seneca · Moral Letters to Lucilius

Letter 30 — On Conquering the Conqueror (§6)

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“And it is just as insane,” he adds, “for a man to fear what will not happen to him, as to fear what he will not feel if it does happen.” Or does anyone imagine it to be possible that the agency by which feeling is removed can be itself felt? “Therefore,” says Bassus, “death stands so far beyond all evil that it is beyond all fear of evils.”
Seneca·Letter 30 — On Conquering the Conqueror (§6)·trans. Gummere
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