If we have been pleased with life, we should not be displeased with death, since it comes from the hand of the same master.

The saying frames death not as an alien intrusion but as a counterpart to life, issued by the same ultimate “master” (typically understood as God or providence). Its logic is devotional and stoic: gratitude for life should entail acceptance of death, because both belong to a single, coherent order. The line also implies an ethic of humility—humans are recipients rather than owners of existence—and it seeks to dissolve resentment or fear by reclassifying death as part of the same gift that life was. In quotation culture it is often used as a consolatory maxim, urging equanimity at life’s end.