Four Tragedies and Octavia Quotes

“There is nothing after death; and death is nothing - only the finishing post of life's short race. Ambitious, give up your hopes; anxious, your fears. Vast Chaos, and the hungry mouth of Time, consume us all. Death is inseparable; it destroys the body, and does not spare the soul. For Taenarus - the realm of the grim king - the jealous hound that guards the infernal gate - these are all idle tales, fables, the stories of a troubled dream. You ask, where will you be when you are dead? Where the unborn are.”
― Seneca, Four Tragedies and Octavia

“Destruction is the universal law; do you not know, poor mortals, that life is a race to dissolution?”
― Seneca, Four Tragedies and Octavia

“Fear makes me tremble; to what end does fate now point? Conflicting thoughts divide my heart. When good and evil lie so close together, the doubting mind must fear the truth it seeks...”
― Seneca, Four Tragedies and Octavia

“If none were happy, none would believe himself unfortunate, however great his troubles. Take away wealth, and gold, and thriving lands with droves of oxen at the plough - how then the spirits of the down-pressed poor would rise! What is misfortune but comparison?”
― Seneca, Four Tragedies and Octavia

“Death's terrors are for him who, too well known, will die a stranger to himself alone.”
― Seneca, Four Tragedies and Octavia