All things are the same,--familiar in enterprise, momentary in endurance,
coarse in substance. All things now are as they were in the day of
those whom we have buried.
-- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121-180 AD)
-- Meditations, ix, 14
coarse in substance. All things now are as they were in the day of
those whom we have buried.
-- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121-180 AD)
-- Meditations, ix, 14
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- The nature of the universe is the nature of things that are.
Now, things that are have kinship with things that... - Things that have a common quality ever quickly seek their kind.
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121-180 AD) -- Meditations... - All that happens is as usual and familiar as the rose in spring and
the crop in summer.
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121-180 AD) -- Meditations... - Think not disdainfully of death, but look on it with favour;
for even death is one of the things that Nature wills... - A man's happiness,--to do the things proper to man.
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121-180 AD) -- Meditations... - He that dies in extreme old age will be reduced to the same state
with him that is cut down untimely.
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121-180 AD) -- Meditations... - All is ephemeral,--fame and the famous as well.
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Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121-180 AD) -- Meditations... - All that is harmony for thee, O Universe, is in harmony with me as
well.
Nothing that comes at the right time for thee is too... - Live with the gods.
-- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121-180 AD)
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