Book II, Chapter VI; translation from Michael Winterbottom, Declamations of the Elder Seneca (London: Heinemann, 1974) vol. 1 p. 349
Some editions of Seneca prefer the reading Bibamus, moriendum est (Let us drink – we must die).
Controversiae
“Let us never forget that if we wish to die like the Saints we must live like them.”
Théodore Guérin (1798–1856) Catholic saint and nun from France
Letter to Sisters at Saint Mary's, 1848.
Context: Let us never forget that if we wish to die like the Saints we must live like them. Let us force ourselves to imitate their virtues, in particular humility and charity.
Théodore Guérin (1798–1856) Catholic saint and nun from France
Letter to Sisters at Saint Mary's, 1848.
“The tragedy of life is not death but what we let die inside of us while we live.”
Norman Cousins (1915–1990) American journalist
“Let us live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.”
Mark Twain book Pudd'nhead Wilson
Variant: Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
Source: Pudd'nhead Wilson
“If we can't live in peace, then let's die in peace.”
Jim Jones (1931–1978) founder and the leader of the Peoples Temple
" Death Tape http://jonestown.sdsu.edu/AboutJonestown/Tapes/Tapes/DeathTape/Q042fbi.html" FBI No. Q042 (18 November 1978)
Hollow Horn Bear (1850–1913) 19th century Lakota chief and policeman
During negotiations with Crook and others, in [Books on Google Play Congressional Serial Set, 1890, U.S. Government Printing Office, https://books.google.com/books?id=lQ0ZAAAAYAAJ, 1 March 2018, 59]
“To accomplish great things we must live as though we had never to die.”
Luc de Clapiers, Marquis de Vauvenargues (1715–1747) French writer, a moralist
Pour exécuter de grandes choses, il faut vivre comme si on ne devait jamais mourir.
Quoted in Queers in History: The Comprehensive Encyclopedia of Historical Gays (2009), by Keith Stern, p. 466.
Variant: In order to achieve great things, we must live as though we were never going to die.
Source: Reflections and Maxims (1746), p. 172.
