The perpetual work of your life is but to lay the foundation of death.

You are in death, whilst you are in life, because you still are after death, when you are no more alive; or, if you had rather have it so, you are dead after life, but dying all the while you live; and death handles the dying much more rudely than the dead, and more sensibly and essentially.

If you have made your profit of life, you have had enough of it; go your way satisfied.
"Cur non ut plenus vita; conviva recedis ?" ["Why not depart from life as a sated guest from a feast?
"Lucretius, iii.

951.] "If you have not known how to make the best use of it, if it was unprofitable to you, what need you care to lose it, to what end would you desire longer to keep it?
"'Cur amplius addere quaeris, Rursum quod pereat male, et ingratum occidat omne ?' ["Why seek to add longer life, merely to renew ill-spent time, and be again tormented ?"--Lucretius, iii.

914.] "Life in itself is neither good nor evil; it is the scene of good or evil as you make it.' And, if you have lived a day, you have seen all: one day is equal and like to all other days.