QuoteQuest“Let him be up and doing then, not only because death comes nearer every day, but because understanding and intelligence often leave us before we die.”
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Author: Emperor of Rome Marcus Aurelius Let him be up and doing then, not only because death comes nearer every day, but because understanding and intelligence often leave us before we die. Public domain in the USA. Rights source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/55317Read evidence
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- Title
- The Meditations of the Emperor Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
- Type
- Public-domain source · Primary source
- Edition date
- 1902
- Translator
- George W. Chrystal
- Edition
- George W. Chrystal translation; Project Gutenberg ebook 55317
- Held by
- Otto Schulze & Company; S. C. Brown & Company
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- Aurelius, Marcus. (1902). The Meditations of the Emperor Marcus Aurelius Antoninus. Translated by George W. Chrystal. Otto Schulze & Company; S. C. Brown & Company. https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/55317/pg55317.txt
- Quotation citation
- Aurelius (1902)
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- (Aurelius, 1902)
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