Death and the Brevity of Life

Since it is possible that thou mayest depart from life this very moment, regulate every act and thought accordingly.

The time of a man's life is as a point; the substance of it ever flowing... in a word, all things of the body as a river.

Do not act as if thou wert going to live ten thousand years. Death hangs over thee.

Hippocrates and Alexander alike died; reflection on equality before death.