"Death is relief from reaction to the senses, from the puppet-strings of impulse, from the analytical mind, and from service to the flesh. Disgraceful if, in this life where your body does not fail, your soul should fail you first.
"Take care not to be Caesarified, or dyed in purple: it happens. So keep yourself simple, good, pure, serious, unpretentious, a friend of justice, god-fearing, kind, full of affection, strong for your proper work. Strive hard to remain the same man that philosophy wished to make you. Revere the gods, look after men. Life is short. The one harvest of existence on earth is a godly habit of mind and social action."
-- Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
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