Home » Quote » Marcus Aurelius » „Leaves, some the wind scatters on the ground—So is the race of man.“ „Leaves, some the wind scatters on the ground—So is the race of man.“ — Marcus Aurelius Related quotes „As is the generation of leaves, so is that of humanity.The wind scatters the leaves on the ground, but the live timberBurgeons with leaves again in the season of spring returning.So one generation of men will grow while another dies.“ — Homér „"Leaves, some the wind scatters on the ground—So is the race of man." Leaves, also, are thy children; and leaves, too, are they who cry out so if they are worthy of credit, or bestow their praise, or on the contrary curse, or secretly blame and sneer; and leaves, in like manner, are those who shall receive and transmit a man's fame to after-times. For all such things as these "are produced in the season of spring," as the poet says; then the wind casts them down; then the forest produces other leaves in their places. But a brief existence is common to all things, and yet thou avoidest and pursuest all things as if they would be eternal.“ — Marcus Aurelius „Come let us mock at the greatThat had such burdens on the mindAnd toiled so hard and lateTo leave some monument behind,Nor thought of the levelling wind.“ — W.B. Yeats „The scattered tea goes with the leaves and every day a sunset dies.“ — William Faulkner „So when the blue smoke of brittle leaves was in the air and the wind blew the wet laundry stiff on the line I decided to come back home.“ — F. Scott Fitzgerald
