A quote
Now is the time for me to pay my debt. I can give you a saying of your friend Epicurus and thus clear this letter of its obligation: “It is bothersome always to be beginning life.” Or another, which will perhaps express the meaning better: “They live ill who are always beginning to live.”
Seneca·Letter 23 — On the True Joy Which Comes from Philosophy (§9)·trans. Gummere