Marcus Aurelius: “Severally on the occasion of everything that thou dost, pause and ask…”

On the recordJanuary 1, 175

Severally on the occasion of everything that thou dost, pause and ask thyself if death is a dreadful thing because it deprives thee of this.

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Marcus Aurelius

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This passage advises pausing during every action to question whether death's deprivation of that action makes it dreadful.

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