Death therefore is nothing to us nor does it concern us a scrap, seeing that the nature of the spirit we possess is something mortal.

Nil igitur mors est ad nos neque pertinet hilum, quandoquidem natura animi mortalis habetur.

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Original Citation

Lucretius. De Rerum Natura [On the Nature of Things]. c. 55 BC, bk. 3, l. 830.

Current Citation

Lucretius. The Nature of Things. Translated by Alicia Stallings. Penguin, 2007, bk. 3, l. 830.