Therefore the termination of life for every man is no evil, because neither is it shameful, since it is both independent of the will and not opposed to the general interest, but it is good, since it is seasonable, and profitable to and congruent with the universal.
Concluding a reflection on mortality, Marcus Aurelius asserts that the end of life is not an evil but a natural and beneficial part of the universal order.
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But if it is easy to set little value on all these things, turn to that which remains, which is to follow reason and God.
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