“Therefore death is nothing to us, it matters not one jot, since the nature of the mind is understood to be mortal.”

—  Lucretius

Book III, lines 830–831 (tr. Rouse)
De Rerum Natura (On the Nature of Things)

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Nil igitur mors est ad nos neque pertinet hilum, quandoquidem natura animi mortalis habetur.

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