However wretched a fellow-mortal may be, he is still a member of our common species.
Seneca the YoungerOur life's a moment and less than a moment, but even this mite nature has mockingly humored with some appearance of a longer span.
Seneca the YoungerMen do not care how nobly they live, but only how long, although it is within the reach of every man to live nobly, but within no man's power to live long.
Seneca the Younger