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Aurelius, Meditations 2.9: Consider how quickly all things are dissolved and resolved: the bodies and su...
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Consider how quickly all things are dissolved and resolved: the bodies and substances themselves, into the matter and substance of the world: and their memories into the general age and time of the world. Consider the nature of all worldly sensible things; of those especially, which either ensnare by pleasure, or for their irksomeness are dreadful, or for their outward lustre and show are in great esteem and request, how vile and contemptible, how base and corruptible, how destitute of all true life and being they are.
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Marcus Aurelius, Meditations (c. AD 170) · aur_02_ix
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