"Every day we die, for every day part of our life is lost, and even when we are growing bigger our life is growing shorter."
"For, Lucilius, there is an unthinking tendency towards death, as towards other things, which often gets hold of men of noble and most energetic character, and often men who are indolent and spiritless: the former despise life, the latter are flattened by it."
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