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“Human life. Duration: momentary. Nature: changeable. Perception: dim. Condition of Body: decaying. Soul: spinning around. Fortune: unpredictable. Lasting Fame: uncertain. Sum Up: The body and its parts are a river, the soul a dream and mist, life is warfare and a journey far from home, lasting reputation is oblivion.”
― Meditations
― Meditations
“You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. Fools stand on their island of opportunities and look toward another land. There is no other land; there is no other life but this.”
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“As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.”
― Walden or, Life in the Woods
― Walden or, Life in the Woods
“Give me health and a day, and I will make the pomp of emperors ridiculous.”
― Nature
― Nature
“So remember this principle when something threatens to cause you pain: the thing itself was no misfortune at all; to endure it and prevail is great good fortune.”
― Meditations
― Meditations
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