E4P67

Proposition — Part IV

Latin

Homo liber de nulla re minus quam de morte cogitat et ejus sapientia non mortis sed vitæ meditatio est.

English (Elwes 1883)

A free man thinks of death least of all things; and his wisdom is a meditation not of death but of life.

Modern English

A free man thinks of nothing less than of death, and his wisdom is a meditation not on death but on life.