“Yes, you can--if you do everything as if it were the last thing you were doing in your life, and stop being aimless, stop letting your emotions override what your mind tells you, stop being hypocritical, self-centered, irritable. You will find rest from vain fancies if you perform every act in life as though it were your last.”
— Marcus Aurelius, book Meditations
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Source: Meditations (c. 121–180 AD), Book II, 5
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