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“It’s a disgrace in this life when the soul surrenders first while the body refuses to.”

“Don’t behave as if you are destined to live forever. What’s fated hangs over you. As long as you live and while you can, become good now.” —MARCUS AURELIUS, MEDITATIONS, 4.17

“You are afraid of dying. But, come now, how is this life of yours anything but death?” —SENECA, MORAL LETTERS, 77.18

Even when the end is certain, the days must be lived, and little can be done to hurry things along.

“Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand, small, uncaring ways.”