Consider in what condition both in body and soul a man should be when he is overtaken by death; and consider the shortness of life, the boundless abyss of time past and future, the feebleness of all matter.


Meditations of Marcus Aurelius Antoninus: Emperor of the Romans (ed. 1882)

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Consider in what condition both in body and soul a man should be when he is overtaken by death; and consider the shortness of life, the boundless...

Consider in what condition both in body and soul a man should be when he is overtaken by death; and consider the shortness of life, the boundless...

Consider in what condition both in body and soul a man should be when he is overtaken by death; and consider the shortness of life, the boundless...

Consider in what condition both in body and soul a man should be when he is overtaken by death; and consider the shortness of life, the boundless...