957] "Give place to others, as others have given place to you.

Equality is the soul of equity.

Who can complain of being comprehended in the same destiny, wherein all are involved?
Besides, live as long as you can, you shall by that nothing shorten the space you are to be dead; 'tis all to no purpose; you shall be every whit as long in the condition you so much fear, as if you had died at nurse: "'Licet quot vis vivendo vincere secla, Mors aeterna tamen nihilominus illa manebit.' ["Live triumphing over as many ages as you will, death still will remain eternal."-- Lucretius, iii.

1103] "And yet I will place you in such a condition as you shall have no reason to be displeased.
"'In vera nescis nullum fore morte alium te, Qui possit vivus tibi to lugere peremptum, Stansque jacentem.' ["Know you not that, when dead, there can be no other living self to lament you dead, standing on your grave."-- Idem., ibid., 898.] "Nor shall you so much as wish for the life you are so concerned about: "'Nec sibi enim quisquam tum se vitamque requirit.
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"'Nec desiderium nostri nos afficit ullum.' "Death is less to be feared than nothing, if there could be anything less than nothing.
"'Multo.

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