From: ‘How To Die: An Ancient Guide to the End of Life’ by Seneca, edited, translated, and introduced by James S. Romm: Quote: We are in no one’s power, if death is in our power. (Epistle 91.18-21) Thought: If we are always prepared for death, and for how we will die, we...

From: ‘How To Die: An Ancient Guide to the End of Life’ by Seneca, edited, translated, and introduced by James S. Romm: Quote: He lives badly who does not know how to die well… He who fears death will never do anything to help the living. But he who knows that this was...

From: ‘How To Die: An Ancient Guide to the End of Life’ by Seneca, edited, translated, and introduced by James S. Romm: Quote: Death is the undoing of all our sorrows, an end beyond which our ills cannot go; it returns us to that peace in which we reposed before we were born. If...

From: ‘How To Die: An Ancient Guide to the End of Life’ by Seneca, edited, translated, and introduced by James S. Romm: Quote: Nothing can be of such great benefit to you, in your quest for moderation in all things, than to frequently contemplate the brevity of one’s life...

From: ‘How To Die: An Ancient Guide to the End of Life’ by Seneca, edited, translated, and introduced by James S. Romm: Quote: Praise and emulate the man who does not disdain to die, though it’s pleasant to live, what virtue is there in leaving by being thrown out? Yet here...

From: ‘How To Die: An Ancient Guide to the End of Life’ by Seneca, edited, translated, and introduced by James S. Romm: Quote: Then little by little the suspirium [i.e. respiratory illness], which had turned into a kind of panting, gave me longer respites and slowed down. But it...

From: ‘How To Die: An Ancient Guide to the End of Life’ by Seneca, edited, translated, and introduced by James S. Romm: Quote: [A]ll things that seem to die are in fact only transformed; thus the one who will return to the world should leave it with equanimity. Just look at how...

From: ‘How To Die: An Ancient Guide to the End of Life’ by Seneca, edited, translated, and introduced by James S. Romm: Quote: Those who have learnt how to die have unlearned how to be slaves. It is a power above, and beyond all other powers. What matter to them the prison-house,...

From: ‘How To Die: An Ancient Guide to the End of Life’ by Seneca, edited, translated, and introduced by James S. Romm: Quote: Because these examples [of death] are so frequent [in his writings] and so grim, modern readers have sometimes found Seneca’s writings to be macabre...

From: ‘How To Die: An Ancient Guide to the End of Life’ by Seneca, edited, translated, and introduced by James S. Romm: Quote: [O]ne must rehearse for death throughout one’s life – for life, properly understood, is really only a journey toward death, we are dying every...

  #40: On Anger (De Ira) Quotes that resonate, from ‘How to Keep Your Cool: An Ancient Guide to Anger Management’ by Seneca, selected, translated and introduced by James Romm.   [108] Let’s get rid of anger’s evil; let’s purge the mind, tear out by the roots that...

#39: On Anger (De Ira) Quotes that resonate, from ‘How to Keep Your Cool: An Ancient Guide to Anger Management’ by Seneca, selected, translated and introduced by James Romm.   [105] You should assume that there are many things ahead you have to suffer. Is anyone surprised at...

  #38: On Anger (De Ira) Quotes that resonate, from ‘How to Keep Your Cool: An Ancient Guide to Anger Management’ by Seneca, selected, translated and introduced by James Romm.   [102] [Y]our anger is a kind of madness: because you set a huge price on worthless things. [103]...

#37: On Anger (De Ira) Quotes that resonate, from ‘How to Keep Your Cool: An Ancient Guide to Anger Management’ by Seneca, selected, translated and introduced by James Romm.   [101] You get mad at this one, then that… at parents, then at children; at the famous, then at...

  #36: On Anger (De Ira) Quotes that resonate, from ‘How to Keep Your Cool: An Ancient Guide to Anger Management’ by Seneca, selected, translated and introduced by James Romm.   [100] [W]hatever each of us finds to reproach in another, he’ll find in his own breast.  Why call...

#35: On Anger (De Ira) Quotes that resonate, from ‘How to Keep Your Cool: An Ancient Guide to Anger Management’ by Seneca, selected, translated and introduced by James Romm.   [99] Why do you put up with the ravings of a sick man, the abuse of a lunatic, or the bold hands of young...

  #34: On Anger (De Ira) Quotes that resonate, from ‘How to Keep Your Cool: An Ancient Guide to Anger Management’ by Seneca, selected, translated and introduced by James Romm.   [97] It is best to look ahead for ways to block our known vices and, above all, to so compose our mind...

#33: On Anger (De Ira) Quotes that resonate, from ‘How to Keep Your Cool: An Ancient Guide to Anger Management’ by Seneca, selected, translated and introduced by James Romm.   [94] Struggle against yourself; if [you want] to conquer anger, you can’t allow it to conquer you. ...

#33: On Anger (De Ira) Quotes that resonate, from ‘How to Keep Your Cool: An Ancient Guide to Anger Management’ by Seneca, selected, translated and introduced by James Romm.   [89] It is not to your benefit to see and hear everything. Many injuries ought to pass over us; if you...

  #31: On Anger (De Ira) Quotes that resonate, from ‘How to Keep Your Cool: An Ancient Guide to Anger Management’ by Seneca, selected, translated and introduced by James Romm.   [87] It is best therefore to restrain oneself at the first sign of evil, then to give as little rein as...

#30: On Anger (De Ira) Quotes that resonate, from ‘How to Keep Your Cool: An Ancient Guide to Anger Management’ by Seneca, selected, translated and introduced by James Romm.   [83] We must also beware of physical exhaustion, for it wears away whatever is gentle and peaceful in us...

#29: On Anger (De Ira) Quotes that resonate, from ‘How to Keep Your Cool: An Ancient Guide to Anger Management’ by Seneca, selected, translated and introduced by James Romm.   [80] Whenever an argument goes on too long and gets heated, we should stop it at the outset before it...

  #28: On Anger (De Ira) Quotes that resonate, from ‘How to Keep Your Cool: An Ancient Guide to Anger Management’ by Seneca, selected, translated and introduced by James Romm.   [76] [T]here is no beneficial place or healthy climate that has ever benefited the body as much as the...

#27: On Anger (De Ira) Quotes that resonate, from ‘How to Keep Your Cool: An Ancient Guide to Anger Management’ by Seneca, selected, translated and introduced by James Romm.   [73] There is no proof of greatness so sure as when nothing that can occur can provoke you. [74] In the...

#26: On Anger (De Ira) Quotes that resonate, from ‘How to Keep Your Cool: An Ancient Guide to Anger Management’ by Seneca, selected, translated and introduced by James Romm.   [71] It’s worse sin than luxury, since that vice is enjoyed by personal pleasure, whereas anger...

#25: On Anger (De Ira) Quotes that resonate, from ‘How to Keep Your Cool: An Ancient Guide to Anger Management’ by Seneca, selected, translated and introduced by James Romm.   [66] Just as bodily strength and diligent care of one’s health give no help against plague –...

#24: On Anger (De Ira) Quotes that resonate, from ‘How to Keep Your Cool: An Ancient Guide to Anger Management’ by Seneca, selected, translated and introduced by James Romm. [65] Don’t you want me to advise those people who wield anger from the height of power, who think it...

#23: On Anger (De Ira) Quotes that resonate, from ‘How to Keep Your Cool: An Ancient Guide to Anger Management’ by Seneca, selected, translated and introduced by James Romm. [62] Other emotions  accept postponement and can be tended to more slowly, but the violence of this one,...

#22: On Anger (De Ira) Quotes that resonate, from ‘How to Keep Your Cool: An Ancient Guide to Anger Management’ by Seneca, selected, translated and introduced by James Romm. [60] It is more important to look at how many people have been injured by anger’s very nature. Many...

#21: On Anger (De Ira) Quotes that resonate, from ‘How to Keep Your Cool: An Ancient Guide to Anger Management’ by Seneca, selected, translated and introduced by James Romm. [58] No face produced by any emotion is more disturbed than anger’s: it mars the loveliest visages,...