“Who well lives, long lives; for this age of ours
Should not be numbered by years, daies, and hours.”

Second Week, Fourth Day, Book ii. Compare: " A life spent worthily should be measured by a nobler line,—by deeds, not years", Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Pizarro, Act iv, Scene 1.
La Seconde Semaine (1584)

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French writer 1544–1590

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