A lways run to the short way; and the short way is the natural: accordingly say and do everything in conformity with the soundest reason. For such a purpose frees a man from trouble, and warfare, and all artifice and ostentatious display.
It is a vulgar, but still a useful help towards contempt of death, to pass in review those who have tenaciously stuck to…
Death is such as generation is, a mystery of nature; a composition out of the same elements, and a decomposition into th…