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The longest-lived and the shortest-lived man, when they come to die, lose one and the same things.

Marcus Aurelius

Meditations · 180

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Death as equalizer Length of life

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Philosophical literature

Medium

Personal journal

Time

180 Classical antiquity

Person

Marcus Aurelius

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Aurelius, Marcus. Meditations, edited and translated by Martin Hammond. Penguin Classics, 2015, bk. 2.

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Aurelius, Marcus. Meditations. c. 180, bk. 2.

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