“It was a great deed to conquer Carthage, but a greater deed to conquer death.”

Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium (Moral Letters to Lucilius), Letter XXIV: On despising death

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Roman Stoic philosopher, statesman, and dramatist -4–65 BC

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