The cessation of any action, the extinction of any keen desire, or of any opinion, is as it were a death to them. This is no evil. Turn, now to your different ages; such as childhood, youth, manhood, old-age; for every change of these is a death.* Is there any thing alarming here? Go, now, to your life; first as it was under your grand-father, then as it was under your mother; and then as it was under† your father: and, as you find there many other alterations, changes, and endings, ask yourself, was there any thing in these to alarm me? Thus, neither is there, in the ending, ceasing, and change, of your whole life.

~ Marcus Aurelius, Book IX verse 21

A movie in the Mad Max universe—batshit crazy action, extremely cool VFX, and lots of explosions. 7/10.

It’s your default Hollywood Netflix schlop, an action-comedy with The Rock and Kevin Hart. It has some funny scenes, but besides that, I don’t see much value in it. 5/10.

You are a little soul carrying around a corpse, as Epictetus used to say.

~ Marcus Aurelius, Book IV verse 41

The man in a flutter for after-fame fails to picture to himself that each of those who remember him will himself also very shortly die, then again the man who succeeded him, until the whole remembrance is extinguished as it runs along a line of men who are kindled and then put out. And put the case that those who will remember never die, and the remembrance never dies, what is that to you? And I do not say that it is nothing to the dead; what is praise to the living, except perhaps for some practical purpose? For now you are putting off unseasonably the gift of Nature, which does not depend on the testimony of some one else . . .

~ Marcus Aurelius, Book IV verse 19