Not as in a dance and in a play and in such like things, where the whole action is incomplete if anything cuts it short; but in every part, and wherever it may be stopped, it makes what has been set before it full and complete, so that it can say, I have what is my own.
Marcus Aurelius reflects on the completeness of life's actions, even when cut short, unlike a performance.
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