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Death, like generation, is a secret of Nature.
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Citations by Marcus Aurelius
in Quotes & Aphorisms (Death)
Death hangs over thee: whilst yet thou livest, whilst thou mayest, be good.
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That which had grown from the earth, to the earth, But that which has sprung from heavenly seed, Back to the heavenly realms returns. This is either a dissolution of the mutual involution of the atoms, or a similar dispersion of the unsentient elements.
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This Being of mine, whatever it really is, consists of a little flesh, a little breath, and the part which governs.
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Let it not be in any man's power to say truly of thee that thou art not simple or that thou art not good; but let him be a liar whoever shall think anything of this kind about thee; and this is altogether in thy power.
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Rememberest the gods, and that they wish not to be flattered, but wish all reasonable beings to be made like themselves; and rememberest that what does the work of a fig-tree is a fig-tree, and that what does the work of a dog is a dog, and that what does the work of a bee is a bee, and that what does the work of a man is a man.
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Look at everything that exists, and observe that it is already in dissolution and change, and as it were putrefaction or dispersion, or that everything is so constituted in nature as to die.
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in Quotes & Aphorisms (Life)
He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the universe.
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Hasten [to examine] thy own ruling faculty and that of the universe and that of thy neighbor: thy own, that thy may make it just; and that of the universe, that thou mayst remember of what thou art a part; and that of thy neighbor, that thy mayst know whether he has acted ignorantly or with knowledge, and that thou mayst also consider that his ruling faculty is akin to thine.
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That which makes the man no worse than he was makes his life no worse: it has no power to harm, without or within.
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