iwt-v:

I saw a dead dog lying in the grass when I was young.
She was an old bitch in life, but just a pup in death.
I remember seeing the first flies set on her eyes.
How strange it was that they looked so alive and yet did not move…

ohermal:

Marcus Aurelius; Meditations: Book Two

Yes, death and life, fame and ignominy, pain and pleasure, wealth and poverty – all these come to good and bad alike, but they are not in themselves either right or wrong: neither then are they inherent good or evil.