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, ix, 33
with him that is cut down untimely.
-- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121-180 AD)
-- Meditations, ix, 33
Related:
- Things that have a common quality ever quickly seek their kind.
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121-180 AD) -- Meditations... - Everything is in a state of metamorphosis. Thou thyself art in everlasting
change and in corruption to correspond;
so is the whole universe. -- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus... - All things are the same,--familiar in enterprise, momentary in endurance,
coarse in substance. All things now are as they were... - The happiness and unhappiness of the rational, social animal depends
not on what he feels but on what he does;
just as his virtue and vice consist not in feeling... - A wrong-doer is often a man that has left something undone,
not always he that has done something. -- Marcus Aurelius... - He would be the finer gentleman that should leave the world without
having tasted of lying or pretence of any sort,
or of wantonness or conceit. -- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus... - Think not disdainfully of death, but look on it with favour;
for even death is one of the things that Nature wills... - Nothing happens to anybody which he is not fitted by nature to bear.
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121-180 AD) -- Meditations... - Live with the gods.
-- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121-180 AD)
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