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Short-lived are both the praiser and the praised, and 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

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Marcus Aurelius
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Emperor of Rome Marcus Aurelius
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