The Death of Marcus Aurelius

The Death of Marcus Aurelius

Thursday, July 30, 2020

Stoic Snippets 29


Death is such as generation is, a mystery of Nature; a composition out of the same elements, and a decomposition into the same; and altogether not a thing of which any man should be ashamed, for it is not contrary to the nature of a reasonable animal, and not contrary to the reason of our constitution. 

—Marcus Aurelius, Meditations 4.5

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