“Either no feeling remains to the soul after death, or death itself matters not at all.”
Book III, line 39 (tr. J. D. Duff).
Pharsalia
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Aut nihil est sensus animis a morte relictum aut mors ipsa nihil.
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Marcus Annaeus Lucanus 58
Roman poet 39–65Related quotes
“maybe death
isn't darkness, after all,
but so much light
wrapping itself around us”
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“After death the sensation is either pleasant or there is none at all. But this should be thought on from our youth up, so that we may be indifferent to death, and without this thought no one can be in a tranquil state of mind. For it is certain that we must die, and, for aught we know, this very day. Therefore, since death threatens every hour, how can he who fears it have any steadfastness of soul?”
Post mortem quidem sensus aut optandus aut nullus est. Sed hoc meditatum ab adulescentia debet esse mortem ut neglegamus, sine qua meditatione tranquillo animo esse nemo potest. Moriendum enim certe est, et incertum an hoc ipso die. Mortem igitur omnibus horis impendentem timens qui poterit animo consistere?
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