"All is ephemeral - fame and the..." - Quote by Marcus Aurelius
All is ephemeral - fame and the famous as well.
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“Do not indulge in dreams of having what you have not, but reckon up the chief of the blessings you do possess, and then thankfully remember how you would crave for them if they were not yours.”
“A person's worth is measured by the worth of what he values.”
“Always bear this in mind, that very little indeed is necessary for living a happy life.”
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“I came to the conclusion that there is an existential moment in your life when you must decide to speak for yourself; nobody else can speak for you.”
“Death makes no conquest of this conqueror: For now he lives in fame, though not in life.”
“When the gratitude of many to one throws away all shame, we behold fame.”
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“Life is a stranger's sojourn, a night at an inn.”
“In this flowing stream, then, on which there is no abiding, what is there of the things which hurry by on which a man would set a high price? It would be just as if a man should fall in love with one of the sparrows which fly by, but it has already passed out of sight.”
“All things are the same, familiar in enterprise, momentary in endurance, coarse in substance. All things now are as they were in the day of those whom we have buried.”