Always observe how ephemeral and worthless human things are, and what was yesterday a little mucus, tomorrow will be a mummy or ashes.
Pass then through this little space of time conformably to Nature, and end your journey in content, as an olive falls off when it is ripe, blessing Nature who produced it, and thanking the tree on which it grew.
—Marcus Aurelius, Meditations 4.48
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