Moral Letters to Lucilius Section 25

Non licet plus efferre quam intuleris, immo etiam ex eo, quod ad vitam adtulisti, pars magna ponenda est: detrahetur tibi haec circumiecta, novissimum velamentum tui, cutis; detrahetur caro et suffusus sanguis discurrensque per totum; detrahentur ossa nervique, firmamenta fluidorum ac labentium.

On n’emporte pas plus qu’on n’a apporté. Que dis-je ? tu laisseras sur le seuil une grande part du bagage apporté pour cette vie. Tu dépouilleras cette peau, première enveloppe qui tapisse tes organes ; tu dépouilleras cette chair, ce sang qui la pénètre et court se distribuer par tous tes membres ; tu dépouilleras ces os et ces muscles qui maintiennent les parties molles et fluides du corps ;

You may take away no more than you brought in; what is more, you must throw away the major portion of that which you brought with you into life: you will be stripped of the very skin which covers you - that which has been your last protection; you will be stripped of the flesh, and lose the blood which is suffused and circulated through your body; you will be stripped of bones and sinews, the framework of these transitory and feeble parts.