Cast aside all that is extraneous and superfluous, and cling to the few things that really matter. Remember that you live only in the present moment—a single, indivisible point in time. The past is gone and the future is unknowable. Brief is the moment in which you live; small is the plot of earth beneath your feet. Do you seek fame, so that you will live on in people’s memories after you’re dead? Remember that their days are short, too—they barely have time to know themselves, much less learn about those who died long ago. And even if they were to live ten thousand years and keep your
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