We do not know it because we are fooling away our time with outward and perishing things, and are asleep in regard to that which is real within ourself. ↗
Property is unstable, and youth perishes in a moment. Life itself is held in the grinning fangs of Death, Yet men delay to obtain release from the world. Alas, the conduct of mankind is surprising. ↗
The people got daily worse from the cold and the bad water, and they must all have perished if they had not discovered the port about the time they did. ↗