LET it be thy earnest and incessant care as a
Roman and a man to perform whatsoever it
is that thou art about, with true and unfeigned
gravity, natural affection, freedom and justice:
and as for all other cares, and imaginations, how
thou mayest ease thy mind of them. Which
thou shalt do; if thou shalt go about every
action as thy last action, free from all vanity,
all passionate and wilful aberration from reason,
and from all hypocrisy, and self-love, and dislike
of those things, which by the fates, or appointment
of God, have happened unto thee.
MARCUS AURELIUS. MEDITATIONS. Book ii. 7.
To "seize the day" as if every day is our last day on this earth. All of the little vanities and time wasters would fall by the wayside in our quest to make every moment and second count on our last day with our loved ones and friends. It is definitely a sobering thought.
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