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Sunday February 28, 2016
The infinity of past and future gapes before us—a chasm whose depths we cannot see. So it would take an idiot to feel importance or distress. Or any indignation, either.
As if the things that irritate us lasted.
Remember:
Matter: How tiny your share of it.
Time: How brief and fleeting your allotment of it.
Fate: How small a role you play in it.
—Marcus Aurelius
Roman emperor and philosopher (121-180 AD)
Source: Meditations, book five, transl. by Gregory Hayes(buy on Amazon)
