Quid diu est ubi finis est?

Breve tempus vitae. Sed modo ambula ex fide, mores compone. Longe in alto est ille: nutri pennas. Crede quod nondum potes videre, ut merearis videre quod credis. Tanquam peregrini vivamus, transire nos cogitemus; et minus peccabimus. Agamus potius Domino Deo nostro gratias, quia huius vitae ultimum diem et brevem esse voluit et incertum. A prima infantia usque ad decrepitam senectutem breve spatium est. Qui tamdiu vixerat, quid ei profuisset si Adam hodie mortuus esset? Quid diu est, ubi finis est? Hesternum diem nemo revocat: hodiernus a crastino urgetur, ut transeat. Ipso parvo spatio bene vivamus, et illo eamus, unde non transeamus. Et modo cum loquimur utique transimus. Verba currunt, ex ore volant: sic actus nostri, sic honores nostri, sic miseria nostra, sic ista felicitas nostra. Totum transit: sed non expavescamus; Verbum Domini manet in aeternum (Isai. XL, 8).

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