Do every act of your life as though it were the very last act of your life.

Execute every act of thy life as though it were thy last.

The act of dying is one of the acts of life.

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

How strangely men act. They will not praise those who are living at the same time and living with themselves; but to be themselves praised by posterity, by those whom they have never seen or ever will see, this they set much value on.

Be content with what you are, and wish not change; nor dread your last day, nor long for it.