In mans life, time is but a moment being, a flux sense is dim the material frame corruptible soul, an eddy of breath fortune a thing inscrutable, and fame precarious.
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To them that ask Where hast thou seen the Gods, or how knowest thou certainly that there be Gods, that thou art so devout in their worship I answer Neither have I seen my own soul, and yet I respect and honor it.Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
Life is a warfare and a stranger's sojourn, and after fame is oblivion.
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One man is proud when he has caught a poor hare, and another when he has taken a little fish in a net, and another when he has taken wild boars, and another when he has taken bears ... Are these not robbers.
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If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.
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Men exist for the sake of one another. Teach them then or bear with them.
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Mark how fleeting and paltry is the estate of manyesterday in embryo, tomorrow a mummy or ashes. So for the hairsbreadth of time assigned to thee, live rationally, and part with life cheerfully, as drops the ripe olive, extolling the season that bore it and the tree that matured it.
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