… Why not rather cause all others to love you while you live, and miss you when you’ve gone?
This is from Anger, Mercy, Revenge by Lucius Annaeus Seneca, translated by Robert A. Kaster and Martha C. Nussbaum (2010):
… Each person should say to himself and to the other: what good does it do to proclaim our feuds, as though we were born to live forever, and to waste the very brief time of life that we have? What good does it do to take the days we could spend on honorable pleasure and devote them instead to another’s anguished torment?
… Why not rather take stock of our own brief life and make sure it’s peaceful for yourself and everyone else? Why not rather cause all others to love you while you live, and miss you when you’ve gone?
… Bear with it a bit and — lo and behold — here’s death to make you equals.
My most recent previous post from Seneca’s book is here.
-Julie
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