"A little time, and thou shalt close..." - Quote by Marcus Aurelius
A little time, and thou shalt close thy eyes; and him who has attended thee to thy grave, another soon will lament.
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“The happiness of those who want to be popular depends on others; the happiness of those who seek pleasure fluctuates with moods outside their control; but the happiness of the wise grows out of their own free acts.”
“Humans have come into being for the sake of each other, so either teach them, or learn to bear them.”
“The whole universe is change and life itself is but what you deem it - either gratefully better than or bitterly worse than something else that you alone choose.”
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“This was all he wanted now. Some signs that the immense world would accept him and give him the long time he needed to think all the things that must be thought.”
“To rove about, musing, that is to say loitering, is, for a philosopher, a good way of spending time.”
“Life does not wait: Whether we spend our lives meaningfully or not, the time will be used up moment by moment.”