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Aurelius, Meditations 9.12: All those things, for matter of experience are usual and ordinary; for their ...
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All those things, for matter of experience are usual and ordinary; for their continuance but for a day; and for their matter, most base and filthy. As they were in the days of those whom we have buried, so are they now also, and no otherwise.
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Marcus Aurelius, Meditations (c. AD 170) · aur_09_xii
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