Mark Roberts

“In this infinity then what is the difference between him who lives three days and him who lives three generations? Always”
― Marcus Aurelius, The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius

“Thou art an old man; no longer let this be a slave, no longer be pulled by the strings like a puppet to unsocial movements, no longer either be dissatisfied with thy present lot, or shrink from the future. All”
― Marcus Aurelius, The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius

“They awe us, these strange stars, so cold, so clear.  We are as children whose small feet have strayed into some dim-lit temple of the god they have been taught to worship but know not; and, standing where the echoing dome spans the long vista of the shadowy light, glance up, half hoping, half afraid to see some awful vision hovering there. And”
― Jerome K. Jerome, Three Men in a Boat

“Alexander the Macedonian and his groom by death were brought to the same state; for either they were received among the same seminal principles of the universe, or they were alike dispersed among the atoms. Consider”
― Marcus Aurelius, The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius