Doest every act of thy life as if it were the last, laying aside all carelessness and passionate aversion from the commands of reason, and all hypocrisy, and self-love, and discontent with the portion which has been given to thee. Marcus Aurelius. Meditations. Book 2.
Image: Titus Manlius Torquatus, on painted leather, after Dutch painter Hendrick Goltzius, 1558-1617 (PD)
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