Perfection of character is this: to live each day as if it w... - Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

"All things fade and quickly turn to myth."

"We must make haste then, not only because we are daily nearer to death, but also because the conception of things and the understanding of them cease first."

"It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live."

"The soul becomes dyed with the colour of its thoughts."

"Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future too."