Short-lived are both the praiser and the praised, and the rememberer and the remembered: and all this in a nook of this part of the world; and not even here do all agree, no, not any one with himself: and the whole earth too is a point.
— Marcus Aurelius Ancient

Stoic philosophy, Roman Emperor

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Meditations, Book 4, Section 3

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c. 161-180 AD

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Shocking

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