Do you think that he is concerned at the Moon's being in difficulties, though it was by her that he was thrown into that sleep, in order that she might kiss him while sleeping.

For what should he be concerned for who has not even any sensation?
You look on sleep as an image of death, and you take that on you daily; and have you, then, any doubt that there is no sensation in death, when you see there is none in sleep, which is its near resemblance?
XXXIX.

Away, then, with those follies, which are little better than the old women's dreams, such as that it is miserable to die before our time.

What time do you mean?
That of nature?
But she has only lent you life, as she might lend you money, without fixing any certain time for its repayment.

Have you any grounds of complaint, then, that she recalls it at her pleasure?
for you received it on these terms.