Full Idea
To live badly is not just to live badly, but to spend a long time dying.
Gist of Idea
A bad life is just a drawn-out death
Source
Democritus (attrib) (reports [c.250 BCE], B160), quoted by (who?) - where?
Book Reference
'Ancilla to the Pre-Socratic Philosophers', ed/tr. Freeman,Kathleen [Harvard 1957], p.106