People/Seneca the Younger/Quote

Seneca the Younger5 BC–AD 65

For we are mistaken when we look forward to death; the major portion of death has already passed. Whatever years be behind us are in death’s hands.

Seneca the Younger on life and death

Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium (Moral Letters to Lucilius), Letter I: On Saving Time

Quote and source from Wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0

Share

More from Seneca the Younger

All 25 quotes from Seneca the Younger

More about life and death

All 656 quotes about life and death