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for can
anything be more absurd in the traveller than to
increase his luggage as he nears his journey's end?
19. It remains to consider now the fourth
reason—one that seems especially calculated to
render my time of life anxious and full of care—the
nearness of death; for death, in truth, cannot be
far away. O wretched indeed is that old man who
has not learned in the course of his long life that
death should be held of no account! For clearly
death is negligible, if it utterly annihilates the soul,
or even desirable, if it conducts the soul to some place
where it is to live for ever. Surely no other alternative can be found.
Cicero: De Senectute De Amicitia De Divinatione. With An English Translation. William Armistead Falconer. Cambridge. Harvard University Press; Cambridge, Mass., London, England. 1923.
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