Meditations, by Marcus Aurelius, Part 3
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Then Is It Better to Die Tomorrow Than Tomorrow?
How many physicians who once looked so grim and so theatrically shrunk their brows upon their patients are dead and gone themselves? How many astrologers, after that in great ostentation, they had foretold the death of some others? How many philosophers, after so many elaborate tracks and volumes concerning either mortality or immortality? How many brave captains and commanders, after the death and slaughter of so many? The things which daily happen among them cease not daily to be strange unto them. For alas, what is the difference? Let it be thy perpetual meditation.
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