“Death,—a stopping of impressions through the senses, and of the pulling of the cords of motion, and of the ways of thought, and of service to the flesh.”

—  Marcus Aurelius , book Meditations

VI, 28
Source: Meditations (c. 121–180 AD), Book VI

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