The perfection of moral character consists in this, in passing every day as the last, and in being neither violently excited, nor torpid, nor playing the hypocrite. (Marcus Aurelius, Bk VII)
Take no thought for the morrow. (Matthew 6:34)
Horace said something that comes to the same or is rescued from it only by qualifications and obscurity. (Odes, I, 11)
I take pause to reflect, having just heard that a younger cohort not seen in some weeks has suddenly died of a heart attack.
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