If one told thee certainly that on the morrow thou shouldst die, or at the furthest on the day after, it would be no great matter to thee to die on the day after to-morrow, rather than to-morrow.

Strive to think it a thing no greater that thou wilt die--not to-morrow, but a year, or two years, or ten years from to-day.
"I find that all things are now as they were in the days of our buried ancestors--all things sordid in their elements, trite by long usage, and yet ephemeral.

How ridiculous, then, how like a countryman in town, is he, who wonders at aught.

Doth the sameness, the repetition of the public shows, weary thee?
Even so doth that likeness of events in the spectacle of the world.

And so must it be with thee to the end.
For the wheel of the world hath ever the same [208] motion, upward and downward, from generation to generation.