Death therefore is nothing to us nor does it concern us a scrap, seeing that the nature… — Lucretius
Death therefore is nothing to us nor does it concern us a scrap, seeing that the nature of the spirit we possess is something mortal.
In the original Latin
Nil igitur mors est ad nos neque pertinet hilum, quandoquidem natura animi mortalis habetur.
On the Nature of Things · 55 BC
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Carus, Titus Lucretius. The Nature of Things, translated by Alicia Stallings. Penguin Classics, 2007, bk. 3, l. 830.
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Carus, Titus Lucretius. De Rerum Natura [On the Nature of Things]. c. 55 BC, bk. 3, l. 830.
