The Death of Marcus Aurelius

The Death of Marcus Aurelius

Wednesday, June 22, 2022

Stoic Snippets 149


On the occasion of every act ask yourself, how is this with respect to me? Shall I repent of it? 

A little time and I am dead, and all is gone. 

What more do I seek, if what I am now doing is the work of an intelligent living being, and a social being, and one who is under the same law with God? 

—Marcus Aurelius, Meditations 8.2 

IMAGE: Jan Wildens, Landscape with Christ and his Disciples on the Road to Emmaus (c. 1640) 



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