Epictetus · Fragments
Fragment 24
The same
If a man dies young, he blames the gods <because he is carried off before his time. But if a man fails to die when he is old, he too blames the gods>, because, when it was long since time for him to rest, he has trouble; yet none the less, when death draws nigh, he wishes to live, and sends for the doctor, and implores him to spare no zeal and pains. People are very strange, he used to say, wishing neither to live nor to die.
Epictetus, Discourses, Fragment 24, translated by W. A. Oldfather (1925–1928). The Stoic Library.