Consider in what condition both in body and soul a man should be when he is overtaken by death; and consider the shortness of life, the boundless abyss of time past and future, the feebleness of all matter.
—Marcus Aurelius, Meditations 12.7
IMAGE: Anonymous (after Hans Holbein the Younger), Portrait of Sir Brian Tuke with Death (c. 1540)
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