And so you must reason with yourself about both fame and death. As for the body itself — the thing that dies — do you want to know how worthless it is? Turn it around so you can see its worst sides, not just its normal pleasant form. How does it look when it's old and wrinkled? When it's sick and in pain? When it's caught up in lust and sex?
And so must thou reason with thyself, both in matter of fame, and in matter of death. For as for the body itself, (the subject of death) wouldest thou know the vileness of it? Turn it about that thou mayest behold it the worst sides upwards as well, as in its more ordinary pleasant shape; how doth it look, when it is old and withered? when sick and pained? when in the act of lust, and fornication?