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  • The goal of our career is death

    “The goal of our career is death. It is the necessary object of our aim. If it frightens us, how is it possible to go forward without feverishness? The remedy of the common herd is not to think about it. But from what brutish stupidity can come so gross a blindness!” I.20 “That to philosophize…

  • Seneca’s last words

    “And [Seneca’s] last words remained long afterword in credit and honor among men (it is a very grievous loss to us that they have not come down to us).” II.35 “Of three good women” (p. 688)

  • Plain French

    “So do not consider those moist eyes and that piteous voice; consider that bearing, that coloring, and the plumpness of those cheeks under those great veils: it is by those that she speaks plain French.” II.35, “Of three good women” (p. 683)

  • Honor in weeping for husbands

    “If there is some honor in weeping for husbands, it belongs only to those who have smiled upon theirs; let those who have wept in his life smile in his death, outwardly as well as inwardly.” II.35 “Of three good women” (p. 683)

  • To depart a better man

    “If we must, let us study something suitable to our condition, so that we may answer like the man who, when he was asked what was the purpose of these studies in decrepitude, replied: ‘To depart a better man and more content.’” II.29 “All things have their season” (p. 646)

  • The universe suffers by our annihilation

    “It seems that the universe somehow suffers by our annihilation and that is has compassion for our state.”   II. 13 “Of judging the death of others” (p. 556)

  • To philosophize is to prepare for death

    “Cicero says that to philosophize is  nothing else but to prepare for death. This is because study and contemplation draw our soul out of us to some extent and keep it busy outside the body; which is a sort of apprenticeship and semblance of death.” I.20 “That to philosophize is to learn to die” (p.…

  • Some other tags

    This is a post to hold some other tags that will be useful later.