Altogether the interval is small between birth and death; and consider with how much trouble, and in company with what sort of people and in what a feeble body this interval is laboriously passed. Marcus Aurealius. Meditations. Book 4.
Image: Etruscan sarcophagus depicting deceased and funeral procession from the Tomb of the Sarcophagi, 2nd quarter of the 4th century BCE, Cerveteri necropolis, in the Gregorio Etruscan Museum, Vatican City. courtesy of Wikimedia Commons.
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