The Death of Marcus Aurelius

The Death of Marcus Aurelius

Tuesday, February 9, 2021

Stoic Snippets 52


Am I unhappy because this has happened to me? Not so, but I am happy, though this has happened to me, because I continue free from pain, neither crushed by the present nor fearing the future. 

For such a thing as this might have happened to every man; but every man would not have continued free from pain on such an occasion. 

—Marcus Aurelius, Meditations 4.49

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