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124 (c) Equality is the chief part of equity. Who can complain of being included where all are included? However long you may live, you will thereby subtract nothing from the time that you must be dead; it is all for naught; you will be as long in that state which you dread as if you had died in infancy.

Mors æterna tamen nihilominus illa manebit.
 * Licet, quod vis, vivendo vincere secla,

(b) And truly I shall put you in such a condition that you will have no discontent: —

In vera nescis nullum fore morte alium te, Qui possit vivus tibi te lugere peremptum, Stansque jacentem; neither will you desire the life which you so bewail. Nec sibi enim quisquam tum se vitamque requirit. Nec desiderium nostri nos afficit ullum.

Death is less to be feared than nothing, if there be any thing less than nothing: —

multo mortem minus ad nos esse putandum, Si minus esse potest quam quod nihil esse videmus.

(c) It concerns you neither dead nor living: living, because you are existing; dead, because you no longer are. (a) No man dies before his hour; what amount of time you leave