Meditations

Some ancient but wise advice from Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (abridged):

“REMIND yourself constantly of all the astrologers who so solemnly predicted their clients’ doom; the philosophers who expatiated so endlessly on death or immortality; the great commanders who slew their thousands; the despots who wielded powers of life and death with such terrible arrogance – as if themselves were gods who could never die.”

“SPEND, therefore, these fleeting moments on earth as Nature would have you spend them, and then go to your rest with a good grace, as an olive falls in its season, with a blessing for the earth that bore it, and a thanksgiving to the tree that gave it life.”