And although they all in like manner, with common accord, teach us also to despise pain, poverty, and the other accidents to which human life is subject, it is not, nevertheless, with the same solicitude, as well by reason these accidents are not of so great necessity, the greater part of mankind passing over their whole lives without ever knowing what poverty is, and some without sorrow or sickness, as Xenophilus the musician, who lived a hundred and six years in a perfect and continual health; as also because, at the worst, death can, whenever we please, cut short and put an end to all other inconveniences.

But as to death, it is inevitable:-- "Omnes eodem cogimur; omnium Versatur urna serius ocius Sors exitura, et nos in aeternum Exilium impositura cymbae." ["We are all bound one voyage; the lot of all, sooner or later, is to come out of the urn.

All must to eternal exile sail away." -- Hor., Od., ii.

3, 25.] and, consequently, if it frights us, 'tis a perpetual torment, for which there is no sort of consolation.

There is no way by which it may not reach us.