It
is a vulgar, but still a useful help towards contempt of death, to
pass in review those who have tenaciously stuck to life. What more
then have they gained than those who have died early? Certainly they
lie in their tombs somewhere at last, Cadicianus, Fabius, Julianus,
Lepidus, or any one else like them, who have carried out many to be
buried, and then were carried out themselves. Altogether the interval
is small between birth and death; and consider with how much trouble,
and in company with what sort of people and in what a feeble body
this interval is laboriously passed. Do not then consider life a
thing of any value. For look to the immensity of time behind thee,
and to the time which is before thee, another boundless space. In
this infinity then what is the difference between him who lives three
days and him who lives three generations?
(podcast episode) (original Greek)
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