Therefore death is nothing to us, it matters not one jot, since the nature of the mind… — Lucretius
Therefore death is nothing to us, it matters not one jot, since the nature of the mind is understood to be 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.
Original citation
Carus, Titus Lucretius. De Rerum Natura [On the Nature of Things]. c. 55 BC, bk. 3, l. 830.
