Do not see death as a hindrance, but accept it, since even death is something that Nature wishes. For just like youth, old age, growth, maturity, the growing of teeth, beard, and gray hair, conception, pregnancy and birth, and all the other activities of Nature which the seasons of life bring—so too is dissolution a natural process. It therefore corresponds to what we are as beings possessed of Reason not to be rash, violent, or arrogant toward death but to await it as one of Nature’s processes. And just as you await the time when the child comes forth from your wife’s womb, in the same way
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