"Live each day as if it were your last" — Marcus Aurelius

Perfection of character is this: to live each day as if it were your last, without frenzy, without apathy, without pretense.

Meditations, Book VII, 69

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Meditations by Marcus Aurelius

A city is not adorned by external things, but by the virtue of those who dwell in it.

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Circumstances don't make the man, they only reveal him to himself.

Discourses, Book 1

Difficulties are things that show a person what they are.

Discourses, Book 1