Marcus Aurelius: “Such as bathing appears to thee,--oil, sweat, dirt, filthy water, all things disgusting,--so is every part of life and…”

The third, then, is the ruling part; consider thus: Thou art an old man; no longer let this be a slave, no longer be pulled by the strings like a puppet to unsocial movements, no longer be either dissatisfied with thy present lot, or…

Further, he was not fond of change nor unsteady, but he loved to stay in the same places, and to employ himself about the same things; and after his paroxysms of headache he came immediately fresh and vigorous to his usual occupations.

As thou intendest to live when them art gone out, ... so it is in thy power to live here.

How quickly all things disappear,--in the universe the bodies themselves, but in time the remembrance of them.