Make use of time while it is present with you.

It depends upon your will, and not upon the number of days, to have a sufficient length of life.

Is it possible you can imagine never to arrive at the place towards which you are continually going?
and yet there is no journey but hath its end.

And, if company will make it more pleasant or more easy to you, does not all the world go the self-same way?
"'Omnia te, vita perfuncta, sequentur.' ["All things, then, life over, must follow thee." -- Lucretius, iii.

981.] "Does not all the world dance the same brawl that you do?
Is there anything that does not grow old, as well as you?
A thousand men, a thousand animals, a thousand other creatures, die at the same moment that you die: "'Nam nox nulla diem, neque noctem aurora sequuta est, Quae non audierit mistos vagitibus aegris Ploratus, mortis comites et funeris atri.' ["No night has followed day, no day has followed night, in which there has not been heard sobs and sorrowing cries, the companions of death and funerals."-- Lucretius, v.