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A quotation from Montaigne

And so, live as long as you please, you will strike nothing off the time you will have to spend dead.
 
[Aussi avez vous beau vivre, vous n’en rabattrez rien du temps que vous avez à estre mort.]

Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592) French essayist
Essays, Book 1, ch. 19 (1.19), “That to Philosophize Is to Learn to Die [Que Philosopher, c’est apprendre à mourir]” (1572) [tr. Frame (1943), 1.20]

More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/montaigne-michel-de/…

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A quotation from The Bible

The gladness of the heart is the life of man, and the joyfulness of a man prolongeth his days.
 
[εὐφροσύνη καρδίας ζωὴ ἀνθρώπου,
καὶ ἀγαλλίαμα ἀνδρὸς μακροημέρευσις.]

The Bible (The Old Testament) (14th - 2nd C BC) Judeo-Christian sacred scripture [Tanakh, Hebrew Bible], incl. the Apocrypha (Deuterocanonicals)
Book 22b. Sirach (Ecclesiasticus) 30:22ff (Sir 30:22) [tr. KJV (1611)]

More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/bible-ot/84744/

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