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On the Misery of the Human Condition - Part 3
« on: September 16, 2022, 03:10:08 pm »
Lothario de Segni, Pope Innocent III
On the Misery
of the Human Condition-Part 3

A man’s last day is always the first in importance, but his first day is never considered his last. Yet it is fitting to live always on this principle, that one should act as if in the moment of death. For it is written: “Remember that death is not slow.” Time passes, death draws near. In the eyes of the dying man a thousand years are as yesterday, which is past. The future is forever being born, the present forever dying, and what is passed is utterly dead. We are forever dying while we are alive; we only cease to die when we cease to live. Therefore it is better to die to life than to live waiting for death, for mortal life is but a living death.

Whence Solomon said, “I praised the dead rather than the living, and I judged him happier than them both who is not yet born.”

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