Marcus Aurelius Quotes About Dying
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The constant recollection of death is the test of human conduct.
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There is no man so blessed that some who stand by his deathbed won't hail the occasion with delight.
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Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind, and from the hard service of the flesh.
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Death smiles at us all, all a man can do is smile back.
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Yet living and dying, honour and dishonour, pain and pleasure, riches and poverty, and so forth are equally the lot of good men and bad. Things like these neither elevate nor degrade; and therefore they are no more good than they are evil.
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There is no man so fortunate that there shall not be by him when he is dying some who are pleased with what is going to happen.
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Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else.
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The act of dying is one of the acts of life.
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