Quotes About Legacy

Ricorda che tra non molto non sarai più nessuno, da nessuna parte, e non esisteranno più nessuna delle cose che vedi ora e nessuno di coloro che vivono ora. Tutti quanti gli esseri, infatti, per natura devono mutare, trasformarsi e corrompersi, perché altri possano subentrare ad essi.

Each morning, remind yourself that this day may be your last. And when you tuck your children into bed at night, remember that they, too, are mortals who someday will die.

What man can you show me who places any value on his time, who reckons the worth of each day, who understands that he is dying daily? For we are mistaken when we look forward to death; the major portion of death has already passed. Whatever years be behind us are in death's hands.

No actues en la idea de que vas a vivir diez mil años. La necesidad ineludible pende sobre ti. Mientras vives, mientras es posible, se virtuoso.

How many of them who came into the world at the same time when I did, are already gone out of it? LII.

When a man kisses his child, said Epictetus, he should whisper to himself, To-morrow perchance thou wilt die.- But those are words of bad omen.- No word is a word of bad omen, said Epictetus, which expresses any work of nature; or if it is so, it is also a word of bad omen to speak of the ears of corn being reaped.

Hipócrates[207], tras sanar muchas enfermedades, enfermó él y murió. Los

56. Think of yourself as dead. You have lived your life. Now take what's left and live it properly

All those people who came into the world with me and have already left it.

Come tutte le cose rapidamente svaniscano, nel cosmo i corpi stessi, nel tempo il loro ricordo;

Not to live as if you had endless years ahead of you. Death overshadows you. While you're alive and able—be good.

We too will inevitably end up where so many eloquent orators have gone, so many distinguished philosophers (Heraclitus, Pythagoras, Socrates), so many heroes of old, and so many generals and tyrants

Onaj tko je sav usplahiren zbog budu?e slave propušta shvatiti kako ?e svi koji ga pamte ubrzo biti mrtvi - kao i on.

Todo ser, en cierto modo, es el germen de otro que de él ha de renacer. Pero tú no sueles imaginarte más semillas que las que se echan en la tierra o en la matriz: y esto es ser demasiado ingenuo.

Soon you will have forgotten all things: soon all things will have forgotten you.

That sort of person is bound to do that. You might as well resent a fig tree for secreting juice. (Anyway, before very long you'll both be dead—dead and soon forgotten.)

All is ephemeral, both that which remembers and that which is remembered.

Alexander the Macedonian and his groom by death were brought to the same state; for either they were received among the same seminal principles of the universe, or they were alike dispersed among the atoms. Consider

Cuántos de los agasajados con muchos himnos están ya entregados al olvido! ¡Cuántos de los que hicieron esos himnos hace tiempo que están ausentes!

Antes de llevar a cabo cualquier acto, pregúntate: ¿para qué me servirá? ¿Me arrepentiré? Dentro de poco ya no existiré, todo habrá desaparecido para mí. ¿Qué puedo esperar más, si mi acto presente es digno de un ser inteligente, sociable y sometido a la misma ley de Dios?

17. Not to live as if you had endless years ahead of you. Death overshadows you. While you're alive and able—be good.

Let a glance at thyself bring to mind one of the Caesars. Then let the thought strike thee: where are they now? Nowhere, or none can say where. For thus shalt thou habitually look upon human things as mere smoke and as naught; and more than ever so, if thou bethink thee that what has once changed will exist no more throughout eternity. Why strive then and strain?

In this infinity then what is the difference between him who lives three days and him who lives three generations? Always

Before long, either ashes or a skeleton, and either just a name or not even that