Marcus Aurelius. To himself (№ 336703)

So, leaving aside everything else, hold on some things. And remember that each person lives only lasts a moment, and the rest, or have lived, or unknown. So little the time in which he lives, every man is small and the area of land where he lives. Small and the longest posthumous fame, besides it exists in successive generations of people living long and do not know neither themselves, nor the deceased long before them.