2 quotations linked to Moral Letters to Lucilius — Letter 63 by or associated with Seneca, with source notes, explanations and related topics.
Grief, friendship, love, mourning, remembrance, proportion and continuing openness to relationship after bereavement.
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“You have buried one whom you loved; look about for someone to love.”
Continuing to love does not erase the person who died; it refuses to let bereavement close the capacity for relationship permanently.
Letter 63 urges remembrance of a lost friend while continuing to participate in friendship and life.
“Let not the eyes be dry when we have lost a friend, nor let them overflow.”
Grief is neither forbidden nor allowed to consume everything; the line recommends honest mourning held within proportion.
Letter 63, on grief for lost friends, argues against both emotional numbness and endless mourning.
