The Death of Marcus Aurelius

The Death of Marcus Aurelius

Saturday, August 27, 2022

Stoic Snippets 160


Turn the body inside out, and see what kind of thing it is; and when it has grown old, what kind of thing it becomes, and when it is diseased. 

Short lived are both the praiser and the praised, and the rememberer and the remembered: and all this in a nook of this part of the world; and not even here do all agree, no, not any one with himself: and the whole earth too is a point. 

—Marcus Aurelius, Meditations 8.21 



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