"Ampliat aetatis spatium sibi vir bonus. Hoc est Vivere bis vita posse priore frui."
— Martial

January 1, 1970

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X, 23. Alternatively translated as "The good man prolongs his life; to be able to enjoy one's past life is to live twice", in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919). Compare: "For he lives twice who can at once employ / The present well, and e'en the past enjoy", Alexander Pope, Imitation of Martial.