#longlife — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #longlife, aggregated by home.social.
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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/…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #montaigne #micheldemontaigne #death #eternity #lifespan #living #longlife #mortality #shortlife
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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/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #bible #oldtestrament #apocrypha #sirach #ecclesiasticus #attitude #gladness #gusto #happiness #joy #lifespan #living #longlife #positiveattitude #rejoicing
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#LetterOfTheWeek
#STForum: What is a 120-year #life for?
"what we believe a human person is worth when he can no longer contribute economically. Taro Aso’s infamous “hurry up and die”🤨 comment is not an outlier.. #Singapore has among the most sophisticated #ageing infrastructures in the region. What we have not yet built is a compelling account of what a #longlife is for – one that holds firm even when the person in question is no longer #useful by conventional measures"🤔
https://www.straitstimes.com/opinion/forum/forum-what-is-a-120-year-life-for
