Thoughts of Marcus Aurelius Antoninus · Emperor of Rome Marcus Aurelius
34. This reflection is most adapted to move us to contempt of death,
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that even those who think pleasure to be a good and pain an evil still have despised it.
35. The man to whom that only is good which comes in due season, and to whom it is the same thing whether he has done more or fewer acts conformable to right reason, and to whom it makes no difference whether he contemplates the world for a longer or a shorter time—for this man neither is death a terrible thing (iii. 7; vi. 23; x. 20; xii. 23).
