“Pyrrhus: Mercy often means giving death, not life.”

—  Seneca the Younger , Troades

Troades (The Trojan Women), line 329; Translation by Emily Wilson
Tragedies

Original

Pyrrhus: Mortem misericors saepe pro vita dabit.

Adopted from Wikiquote. Last update June 3, 2021. History

Help us to complete the source, original and additional information

Do you have more details about the quote "Pyrrhus: Mercy often means giving death, not life." by Seneca the Younger?
Seneca the Younger photo
Seneca the Younger 225
Roman Stoic philosopher, statesman, and dramatist -4–65 BC

Related quotes

Paulo Coelho photo

“Death is our constant companion, and it is death that gives each person's life its true meaning.”

Paulo Coelho book The Pilgrimage

Source: The Pilgrimage

Francis Bacon photo

“In causes of life and death, judges ought (as far as the law permitteth) in justice to remember mercy; and to cast a severe eye upon the example, but a merciful eye upon the person.”

Francis Bacon (1561–1626) English philosopher, statesman, scientist, jurist, and author

The Essays Or Counsels, Civil And Moral, Of Francis Ld. Verulam Viscount St. Albans (1625), Of Judicature

Viktor E. Frankl photo

“The meaning of life is to give life meaning.”

Viktor E. Frankl (1905–1997) Austrian neurologist and psychiatrist, and Holocaust survivor

Source: book Man's Search For Meaning

“Death alone gives meaning to life, and you will never fully live until you know you must die. And make your peace with that knowledge.”

Alice Borchardt (1939–2007) American fiction writer

Source: The Raven Warrior

Bob Dylan photo

“We live in a political world
Where mercy walks the plank,
Life is in mirrors, death disappears
Up the steps into the nearest bank.”

Bob Dylan (1941) American singer-songwriter, musician, author, and artist

Song lyrics, Oh Mercy (1989), Political World

Nikos Kazantzakis photo

“All my life I struggled to stretch my mind to the breaking point, until it began to creak, in order to create a great thought which might be able to give a new meaning to life, a new meaning to death, and to console mankind.”

Nikos Kazantzakis (1883–1957) Greek writer

"Odyssey of Faith" in TIME magazine (6 June 1960) http://www.time.com/time/printout/0,8816,874166,00.html

Viktor E. Frankl photo

“If there is a meaning in life at all, then there must be a meaning in suffering. Suffering is an ineradicable part of life, even as fate and death.”

Viktor E. Frankl book Man's Search for Meaning

Source: Man's Search for Meaning (1946; 1959; 1984), p. 67 in the 1959 Beacon Press edition

“A mercenary mercy killer who was prepared to sell death.”

John Bodkin Adams (1899–1983) general practitionar, fraudster and suspected serial killer

The trial judge Lord Justice Patrick Devlin in his 1985 book on the case.
About

Tsunetomo Yamamoto photo

“Bushido is realized in the presence of death. This means choosing death whenever there is a choice between life and death. There is no other reasoning.”

Tsunetomo Yamamoto book Hagakure

Source: Hagakure: The Book of the Samurai

Related topics