Seneca | On Meeting Death Cheerfully
Perennial Meditations
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Perennial Meditations Podcast - Farewell
Before I became old, I tried to live well. Now that I am old, I shall try to die well. But dying well means dying gladly. See to it that you never do anything unwillingly. He who takes his orders gladly escapes the bitterest part of slavery. Nothing always seems to us as lacking and will always seem lacking. To have lived long enough depends neither upon our years nor on our days, but upon our minds. We must make ready for death before we make ready for life. Long enough I have had my fill. I await death. Farewell.
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