The life given us by nature is short; but the memory of a well-spent life is eternal.
[Brevis a natura nobis vita data est; at memoria bene reditae vitae sepiterna.]
Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 BC) Roman orator, statesman, philosopher
Philippics [Philippicae; Antonian Orations], No. 14, ch. 12 / sec. 32 (14.12/14.32) (43-04-21 BC) [ed. Hoyt (1896)]
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