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Full Idea
No one has power over us when death is in our own power.
Gist of Idea
If we control our own death, no one has power over us
Source
Seneca the Younger (Letters from a Stoic [c.60], 091)
Book Ref
Seneca: 'Letters from a Stoic (Selections)', ed/tr. Campbell,Robin [Penguin 1969], p.183
A Reaction
A classic slogan for the stoic view of suicide, an idea that crops up in Shakespeare's 'Julius Caesar'. He doesn't seem to have understood that they can take away your shoelaces.