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mortem minus ad nos esse putandium, Si minus esse potest, quam quod nihil esse videmus.' "Neither can it any way concern you, whether you are living or dead: living, by reason that you are still in being; dead, because you are no more.

Moreover, no one dies before his hour: the time you leave behind was no more yours than that was lapsed and gone before you came into the world; nor does it any more concern you.
"'Respice enim, quam nil ad nos anteacta vetustas Temporis aeterni fuerit.' ["Consider how as nothing to us is the old age of times past." -- Lucretius iii.

985] Wherever your life ends, it is all there.

The utility of living consists not in the length of days, but in the use of time; a man may have lived long, and yet lived but a little.