“Turn thy thoughts now to the consideration of thy life, thy life as a child, as a youth, thy manhood, thy old age, for in these also every change was a death. Is this anything to fear?”

— Marcus Aurelius , book Meditations

IX, 21
Meditations (c. 121–180 AD), Book IX

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Emperor of Ancient Rome 121–180

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