’Tis very dishonourable in life, that the soul should fail and desert its duty; while… — Marcus Aurelius
’Tis very dishonourable in life, that the soul should fail and desert its duty; while the body can hold out, and sustain its part.
In the original Greek
Αἰσχρόν ἐστιν, ἐν ᾧ βίῳ τὸ σῶμά σοι μὴ ἀπαυδᾷ, ἐν τούτῳ τὴν ψυχὴν προαπαυδᾶν.
Meditations · 180
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Aurelius, Marcus. Meditations, edited and translated by Martin Hammond. Penguin Classics, 2015, bk. 6.
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Aurelius, Marcus. Meditations. c. 180, bk. 6.
