Look to the things themselves, and consider what they are when they shall lose their coverings and see their nakedness: how many things that seem great and terrible and wonderful are then seen to be of no account.
— Marcus Aurelius Ancient

Stoic philosophy, Roman Emperor

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Meditations, Book 12, Section 8

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c. 161-180 AD

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Shocking

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