The Death of Marcus Aurelius

The Death of Marcus Aurelius

Friday, August 8, 2025

Stoic Snippets 268


In the application of your principles you must be like the pancratiast, not like the gladiator; for the gladiator lets fall the sword which he uses and is killed; but the other always has his hand, and needs to do nothing else than use it. 

—Marcus Aurelius, Meditations 12.9 



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