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Look at everything that exists, and observe that it is already in dissolution and in change, and as it were putrefaction or dispersion, or that everything is so constituted by nature as to die.

Marcus Aurelius

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Marcus Aurelius
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Emperor of Rome Marcus Aurelius
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