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“For a man can lose neither the past nor the future; for how can one take from him that which is not his? So remember these two points: first, that each thing is of like form from everlasting and comes round again in its cycle, and that it signifies not whether a man shall look upon the same things for a hundred years or two hundred, or for an infinity of time; second, that the longest lived and the shortest lived man, when they come to die, lose one and the same thing.”
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- Source:
- Meditations. ii. 14.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 88d18407764af3a0bfb957c4685e412e8dd02f1422b30b470a16c4bebdbd59a8
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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