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"In man's life, time is but a moment; being, a flux; sense is dim; the material frame corruptible; soul, an eddy of breath; fortune a thing inscrutable, and fame precarious."

— Marcus Aurelius

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As for life, it is a battle and a sojourning in a strange land; but the fame that comes after is oblivion.

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