Life
idea · 3 works · 3 mentions · 5 anchored passages
life
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Aphorisms
Human lifespan, invoked as brief relative to the art of medicine.
Life is short, and Art long;
The Law of Intellectual Property
A person's life, treated as their incorporeal property.
Life itself is incorporeal.
And the nature of men assures us, that there was never a time known among them, when the injury or destruction of various kinds of incorporeal property, as, for example, strength, sight, health, beauty, liberty, and life, was not considered and treated as a wrong to be avenged.
On the Shortness of Life
The central abstract subject of the essay: human lifespan considered as a resource that can be wasted or well used.
Life is divided into three periods:
Life is long enough, and it has been given to us in generous measure for the accomplishment of the greatest things, if the whole of it were well invested.
Just as great and royal wealth, once it has come into the hands of a bad master, is scattered in a moment, while wealth however modest, if entrusted to a good guardian, grows with use, so our lifetime extends amply for the man who orders it well.