Do not consider anything for your interest which makes you break your word, quit your modesty or inclines you to any practice which will not bear the light or look the world in the face.
Marcus AureliusIt is possible to depart from life at this moment. Have this thought in mind whenever you act, speak, or think.
Marcus AureliusIn man's 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.
Marcus Aurelius