Marcus Aurelius Quote
from Meditations
The speed with which all of them vanish-
the objects in the world, and the memory
of them in time. And the real nature
of the things our senses experience,
especially those that entice us with pleasure
or frighten us with pain or are loudly
trumpeted by pride. To understand
those things- how stupid, contemptible,
grimy, decaying and dead they are-
that's what our intellectual powers are for.
And to understand what those people
really amount to, whose opinions
and voices constitute fame.
And what dying is- and if you look at it
in the abstract and break down
your imaginary ideas of it
by logical analysis,
you realize
that it's nothing
but a process
of nature,
which only children can be afraid of.
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