Facing Mortality with Clarity
The Invoice You Already Knew Was Coming
Men throw away all their years in order to have one year named after them as consul. Some never reach the height. Some wear the purple often and lose their lives in the gaining. Do not envy the name repeated in the forum. He gains these things by losing so much of his life. Extreme old age still booked for new aspirations fails from weakness amid great enterprises. The harness was never going to be a monument worth the animal.
Key Insight
Mortality makes ambition's invoice readable. A title that costs every preceding year is not an honour. It is a receipt. The question is not whether you will die. It is whether the last purchase was a name or a life.
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