Throwing away then all things, hold to these only which are few; and besides, bear in mind that every man lives only this present time, which is an indivisible point, and that all the rest of his life is either past or it is uncertain.
Marcus Aurelius urges focusing on the essential few things and recognizing that only the present moment truly belongs to us.
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How quickly all things disappear,--in the universe the bodies themselves, but in time the remembrance of them.
What a power man has to do nothing except what God will approve, and to accept all that God may give him.
It is thy duty to leave another man's wrongful act there where it is (vii. 29; ix. 38).
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