"Short is the little which remains to..." - Quote by Marcus Aurelius

“Blot out vain pomp; check impulse; quench appetite; keep reason under its own control.”

“You don't have to turn this into something. It doesn't have to upset you. Things can't shape our decisions by themselves.”

“Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.”

“The life given us, by nature is short; but the memory of a well-spent life is eternal.”

“What is now the foliage moving?Air is still, and hush'd the breeze,Sultriness, this fullness loving,Through the thicket, from the trees.Now the eye at once gleams brightly,See! the infant band with mirthMoves and dances nimbly, lightly,As the morning gave it birth,Flutt'ring two and two o'er earth.”

“The sun gives spirit and life to the plants and the earth nourishes them with moisture.”

“To my mind, there are two things that, in life, you can do about death. Either you can choose to ignore it, in which case you may have some success in making the idea of it go away for a limited period of time, or you can confront the prospect of your own death and try to analyze it and, in so doing, try to minimize some of the inevitable suffering that it causes. Neither way can you actually overcome it.”

“To desire immortality for the individual is really the same as wanting to perpetuate an error forever.”

“Right now the new is you, but someday not too long from now, you will gradually become the old and be cleared away. Sorry to be so dramatic, but it is quite true.”