"Perfection of character is this: to live each day as if it were your last, without frenzy, without apathy, without pretence.

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Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else.
More Marcus Aurelius quotes
"Do not act as if you had ten thousand years to throw away. Death stands at your elbow. Be good for something while you live and it is in your power.
"That which has died falls not out of the universe. If it stays here, it also changes here, and is dissolved into its proper parts, which are elements ...
"We must make haste then, not only because we are daily nearer to death, but also because the conception of things and the understanding of them cease ...
"There is no man so blessed that some who stand by his deathbed won't hail the occasion with delight.
"It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.