"You have the power to strip away many superfluous troubles located wholly in your judgement, and to possess a large room for yourself embracing in thought the whole cosmos, to consider everlasting time, to think of the rapid change in the parts of each thing, of how short it is from birth until dissolution, and how the void before birth and that after dissolution are equally infinite."

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Marcus Aurelius was a Roman emperor and Stoic philosopher who ruled from 161 to 180 CE. He is best known for Meditations, a major work of Stoic philosophy written during his reign.

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