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Marcus Aurelius · 121–180 CE

Meditations 6.56 — Marcus Aurelius

Translation by George Long (1862)

Marcus Aurelius, Meditations 6.56

How many together with whom I came into the world are already gone out of it.
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Think of how many people who entered the world alongside you have already left it, which is a reminder that your own time is limited too.

Themes and situations

  • Death and mortality
  • Time and the present
  • Ageing
  • Grief and mourning
  • Fear of death
  • Getting older

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Marcus Aurelius, Meditations 6.56, tr. George Long (1862)