Remember that man lives only in the present, in this fleeting instant; all the rest of his life is either past and gone, or still uncertain. Short is the life of man, and short is the span of his pleasure, and short is his pain.
Stoic philosophy, Roman Emperor
Meditations, Book 3, Section 10
c. 161-180 AD
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