Spare the person but lash the vice.
Our days pass by, and are scored against us.
Neither fear your death's day nor long for it.
Be content to be what you are, and prefer nothing to it, and do not fear or wish for your last day.
It is easy in adversity to despise death; he has real fortitude who dares to live and be wretched.
Such are thou and I: but what I am thou canst not be; what thou art any one of the multitude may be.