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Sunday, May 30, 2021

Stoic Snippets 80


Soon, very soon, you will be ashes, or a skeleton, and either a name or not even a name; but name is sound and echo. 

And the things which are much valued in life are empty and rotten and trifling, and like little dogs biting one another, and little children quarreling, laughing, and then straightaway weeping.

—Marcus Aurelius, Meditations 5.33

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