"Spend your brief moment according to nature's..." - Quote by Marcus Aurelius
Spend your brief moment according to nature's law, and serenely greet the journey's end as an olive falls when it is ripe, blessing the branch that bare it, and giving thanks to the tree that gave it life.
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