Troades Quotes

“Those who abuse their power never stay powerful long.
Moderate governments survive.”
― Seneca, Six Tragedies

“Conscience prevents the crimes that law allows.”
― Seneca, Six Tragedies

“. . . As smoke from a hot fire
looks dirty for a minute and then fades,
as heavy clouds which we have glimpsed just now
suddenly disappear with a puff of the cold North Wind,
so flows away this breath which is our master.
After death is nothing. Even death itself
is nothing: just the finishing-line in the race.
If you hunger for life, abandon hope. If you worry, let go fear.
Hungry time and emptiness devour us.
Death is a single whole: it kills our body
and does not spare the soul. The realm of Taenarus,
kingdom of cruel Hades, and the guard-dog
Cerberus, fierce defender of the gate,
are fictions, tall tales, empty fairy stories,
myths, as close to the truth as a bad dream.
Do you want to know where you will be after death?
Where the unborn are.”
― Seneca, Six Tragedies