O miserable old age, how many humans despise being able to see in that stage of a long lifetime! Death is either completely neglected, if the spirit is extinguished, even though you may wish it, if your spirit is led to some eternal place. What therefore should I be afraid of, if either I am not poor after death, or will I even be rich? But a young person hopes for victory to be long; they hope for old age not power. Young people however hope foolishly; What the truly foolish have for how the uncertain regard the certain, the false regard the truth? Old age, in which there are no hopes, happiness nevertheless is how the young person, and having smaller anxiety, because this because that (young person) hopes that now has (old age); they wish to live a long life, here they live long.
Although, o that good, is someone "long" in human nature? For even if someone lived for a very long time (having, just as I see as I write, a certain Spanish king, who lived for a hundred and twenty years), me not having to see long in is someone from the extreme. The hour and the day and the month and the year indeed depart, and not to elapse withdraw ever at any time and not to know the power of the future. Because time gives peace, I ought to go happy and to be content.
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