"Lose not yourself in a far off time, seize the moment that is thine."
"Don't let your heart depend on things That ornament life in a fleeting way! He who possesses, let him learn to lose, He who is fortunate, let him learn pain."
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Source: The Bride of Messina by Friedrich Schiller, Act IV, sc. iv, 1803.
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