XIX. Philosophical Maxims. Morals. Polemics and Speculations: 1165.
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XIX. Philosophical Maxims. Morals. Polemics and Speculations: 1165.

1165.

How to spend life (1165-1170).0 sleepers! what a thing is slumber! Sleep resembles death. Ah, why then dost thou not work in such wise as that after death thou mayst retain a resemblance to perfect life, when, during life, thou art in sleep so like to the hapless dead? 636


Footnotes

  1. 292:636

    : Compare No. 676, Vol. I. p. 353.

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