si tibi non annis corpus iam marcet et artus confecti languent, eadem tamen omnia restant, omnia si perges vivendo vincere saecla, atque etiam potius, si numquam sis moriturus; quid respondemus, nisi iustam intendere litem naturam et veram verbis exponere causam? Grandior hic vero si iam seniorque queratur atque obitum lamentetur miser amplius aequo, non merito inclamet magis et voce increpet acri? aufer abhinc lacrimas, baratre, et compesce que- rellas! omnia perfunctus vitai praemia marces; sed quia semper aves quod abest, praesentia temnis, inperfecta tibi elapsast ingrataque vita, et nec opinanti mors ad caput adstitit ante quam satur ac plenus possis discedere rerum.
If your body is not already withering with years and your limbs worn out and languid, yet everything remains the same, even if you shall go on to outlive all generations, and even more if you should be destined never to die. What have we to answer, but that nature urges against us a just charge and in her plea sets forth a true case? But if in this regard some older man, well stricken in years, should make complaint, wretchedly bewailing his death more than he ought, would she not have reason to cry more loudly still and to upbraid in bitter words? Away, away with your tears, ruffian, check your lamentations! All lifes prizes you have enjoyed and now you wither. But because you always crave what you have not, and contemn what you have, life has slipped by for you incomplete and ungratifying, and death stands by your head unexpected, before you can retire glutted and full of the feast.
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