Source: Meditations (c. AD 121–180), Book VIII, 21
“Short-lived are both the praiser and the praised, and rememberer and the remembered”
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Marcus Aurelius
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Meditations
VIII, 21
Meditations (c. 121–180 AD), Book VIII
Context: Short-lived are both the praiser and the praised, and 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.
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