“Yet living and dying, honour and dishonour, pain and pleasur…”

“Yet living and dying, honour and dishonour, pain and pleasure, riches and poverty, and so forth are equally the lot of good men and bad. Things like these neither elevate nor degrade; and therefore they are no more good than they are evil.”

— Marcus Aurelius

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II, 11

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