The Death of Marcus Aurelius

The Death of Marcus Aurelius

Monday, June 29, 2020

Epictetus, Golden Sayings 123


Shall we never wean ourselves—shall we never heed the teachings of Philosophy (unless perchance they have been sounding in our ears like an enchanter's drone):

This World is one great City, and one is the substance whereof it is fashioned. A certain period indeed there needs must be, while these give place to those; some must perish for others to succeed; some move and some abide. Yet all is full of friends—first God, then Men, whom Nature has bound by ties of kindred each to each.

IMAGE: John Martin, The City of God (1851)
 
 

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