A quotation from Cicero
MARCUS: Away, then, with all that almost old-womanish twaddle about untimely death being a miserable thing. What time pray? Nature’s? But she gives life on loan, as one might lend money — without fixing beforehand a day of repayment. What ground is there for complaint, then, if she ask for it back whenever she pleases? That was the condition on which you received it.
[Pellantur ergo istae ineptiae paene aniles, ante tempus mori miserum esse. Quod tandem tempus? Naturaene? At ea quidem dedit usuram tamquam pecuniae nalla praestituta die. Quid est igitur quod querare, si repetit,cum volt? Ea enim condicione acceperas.]
Marcus Tullius Cicero (106–43 BC) Roman orator, statesman, philosopher
Tusculan Disputations [Tusculanae Disputationes], Book 1, ch. 39 (1.39) / sec. 93 (1.93) (45 BC) [tr. Black (1889)]
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MARCUS: Away, then, with all that almost old-womanish twaddle about untimely death being a miserable thing. What time pray? Nature’s? But she gives life on loan, as one might lend money — without fixing beforehand a day of repayment. What ground is there for complaint, then, if she ask for it back whenever she pleases? That was the condition on which you received it.
[Pellantur ergo istae ineptiae paene aniles, ante tempus mori miserum esse. Quod tandem tempus? Naturaene? At ea quidem dedit usuram tamquam pecuniae nalla praestituta die. Quid est igitur quod querare, si repetit,cum volt? Ea enim condicione acceperas.]
Marcus Tullius Cicero (106–43 BC) Roman orator, statesman, philosopher
Tusculan Disputations [Tusculanae Disputationes], Book 1, ch. 39 (1.39) / sec. 93 (1.93) (45 BC) [tr. Black (1889)]
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MARCUS: Away, then, with all that almost old-womanish twaddle about untimely death being a miserable thing. What time pray? Nature's? But she gives life on loan, as one might lend money -- without fixing beforehand a day of repayment.
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