Meditations, 4.5

Marcus Aurelius  translated by George Long

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5Death is such as generation is, a mystery of nature; a composition out of the same elements, and a decomposition into the same; and altogether not a thing of which any man should be ashamed, for it is conformable to [the nature of] a reasonable animal, and not contrary to the reason of our constitution.

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