Below are the best quotes we could find featuring marcus aurelius about death and dying.
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Pass then through this little space of time conformably to nature, and end thy journey in content, just as an olive falls off when it is ripe, blessing nature who produced it, and thanking the tree on which it grew.
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Just that you do the right thing. The rest doesn’t matter. Cold or warm. Tired or well-rested. Despised or honored. Dying . . . or busy with other assignments. Because dying, too, is one of our assignments in life.
It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.
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You are a little soul carrying about a corpse, as Epictetus used to say.
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