Sunday, February 10, 2013

Words of Wisdom from Marcus Aurelius: 3.10

Bust of Marcus Aurelius from Met Museum
*Image not mine*




From Book 3.10:

‘’Letting go all else, cling to the following few truths. Remember that man lives only in the present, in this fleeting instant: all the rest of his life is either past and gone, or not yet revealed. This mortal life is a little thing, lived in a little corner of the earth; and little, too, is the longest fame to come - dependent as it is on a succession of fast-perishing little men who have no knowledge even of their own selves, much less of one long dead and gone.’’